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This website is brought to you in association with the Barrow-in-Furness Branch of the Submariners Association and is the premier UK internet resource for Submariners and anyone interested in Royal Navy Submarines.
Vickers and Barrow are names synonymous with the development of the submarine. Hundreds of submarines covering virtually every class have been built for the Royal Navy and foreign Navies. This site is dedicated to not only to those who have served on Her Majesty's Submarines but also to those employees past and present whose skills and efforts have given pride to the phrase 'Barrow built' and made the name Vickers known and respected throughout the world.
On This Day - March 26
| 1940 | Trooper (N 91) | Laid Down |
| 1942 | P 39 | HMS P39 was sitting alongside a jetty in Malta harbour, when german aircraft launched a concerted attack. P39 was seriously damaged and while she did not sink, due to the efforts of the crew, it was decided that she was to badly damaged to be worth repairing. She was towed to Kalkara and beached. Many of the crew were later lost on Olympus on the way home |
| 1943 | Sirdar (P 226) | Launched |
| 1944 | Unswerving (P 63) | HMS Unswerving fires four torpedoes against the German merchant Gertrud off Souda Bay, Crete, Greece. All torpedoes missed. |
| 1944 | Uproar (P 31) | HMS Uproar damages the German tanker Matera with gunfire inside the harbour of Oneglia, Liguria, Italy. |
| 1945 | Sidon (P 259) | Sidon secured alongside SS AL RAWDAH in Holy Loch |
| 1990 | Sealion (S 07) | Towed by tug Mr Cornishman to Blyth |
| 2014 | Torbay (S 90) | HMS Torbay emerged from refit at Plymouth. The Trafalgar Class submarine had been in a revalidated assisted maintenance period (RAMP) which has seen it upgraded and the nuclear power plant given a new lease of life. |
