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.
| 1908 | C 18 (I 48) | Launched |
| 1908 | C 22 (I 52) | Launched |
| 1916 | K 8 | Launched |
| 1919 | E 32 | Paid off into Reserve at Portsmouth |
| 1941 | Thunderbolt (N 25) | HMS Thunderbolt sinks the Italian sailing vessel Citta di Simi with gunfire some 12 miles north-east of Cape Sidero, Crete. |
| 1942 | Saracen (P 247) | A submarine duel occurred on this day in the Mediterranean. The British submarine HMS Saracen fired two torpedoes at U-605, but missed. The U-boat replied with four torpedoes, but these also missed |
| 1942 | Safari (P 211) | HMS Safari fires four torpedoes, but missed, against the Italian about 10 nautical miles south-east of Dubrovnik, Croatia, Yugoslavia. |
| 1942 | Unison (P 43) | HMS Unison torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Enrichetta about 12 nautical miles west-south-west of Kyparissia, Greece. |
| 1942 | Spark (P 236) | Laid Down |
| 1942 | Universal (P 57) | Launched |
| 1943 | Trooper (N 91) | HMS Trooper sailed from the Base at Beirut on 28th September 1943 for a patrol off the west of the Dodocanese Islands. The Submarine failed to arrive back as expected on 17th October and was assumed to have been sunk by a mine on 10th Oct 1943. There were no survivors. |
| 1944 | Virtue (P 75) | While operating off Crete HMS Virtue sinks the Greek sailing vessels Sophia and Aghia Anna with gunfire. |
| 1944 | Aeneas (P 427) | Laid Down |
| 1950 | Andrew (P 423) | Andrew was involved in a collision. |
| 1986 | Oberon (S 09) | Decommissioned |
A WWII legend of how a Russian reindeer sailed from the far north to Britain in a submarine had always been written off as one of those hoary old wartime tales
Set during the Second World War, Above Us The Waves [1955] tells the dramatic tale of British attempts to sink a German warship, the "Tirpitz", using midget submarines. This 1950s film stars John Mills, John Gregson and Donald Sinden.
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A WWII legend of how a Russian reindeer sailed from the far north to Britain in a submarine had always been written off as one of those hoary old wartime tales
Set during the Second World War, Above Us The Waves [1955] tells the dramatic tale of British attempts to sink a German warship, the "Tirpitz", using midget submarines. This 1950s film stars John Mills, John Gregson and Donald Sinden.
13 pages added or updated in the last 2 month
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