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.
| 1914 | E 14 (I 94) | Launched |
| 1917 | F 2 (I A1) | Launched |
| 1917 | L 69 | Laid Down |
| 1918 | L 8 | Launched |
| 1940 | Olympus (N 35) | HMS Olympus bombed & damaged by Italian aircraft while in dock at Malta |
| 1941 | Sealion (N 72) | HMS Sealion sinks the French fishing vessels Gustav Eugene and Gustav Jeanne with gunfire off Ushant. |
| 1941 | Urge (N 17) | Damage was claimed on a 9,000 ton Merchant Vessel in position 37`48'N 15`21'E |
| 1943 | Rorqual (N 74) | HMS Rorqual torpedoes and sinks the German tanker Wilhemsburg about 5 nautical miles west of Tenedos Island, Greece. |
| 1943 | Sea Rover (P 218) | Completed |
| 1943 | Sidon (P 259) | Laid Down |
| 1944 | Sturdy (P 248) | HMS Sturdy sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire off the west coast of Siam. |
| 1945 | Sidon (P 259) | Having left the Holy Loch in April 1945 for passage to the Far East to join the 8th Submarine Flotilla. She diverted to Fremantle to repair battery defects en-route. Sidon departed Fremantle to commence her 2nd patrol. Soon after departing, one of her engines developed a defect and she called in at Onslow to rectify this. The patrol was mainly for air-sea rescue duties. |
| 1945 | Sea Scout (P 253) | HMS Sea Scout sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire in the Gulf of Siam. |
| 1949 | Alecto (J10) 1911 - 1949 | Scrapped at Faslane |
| 1992 | Vengance (S 31) | Boat Ordered from Vickers |
Unseen (S 41) |
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| Class: | 1990 - 1994: Upholder Class |
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| Build Group: | 2400 |
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Fate: Laid up 1995 then Lease/sold to Canadians 2000 became Victoria |
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In Blind Mans Bluff, veteran investigative journalist Sherry Sontag and award-winning New York Times reporter Christopher Drew reveal an extraordinary underwater world. Showing for the first time how the American Navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables, Sontag and Drew unveil new evidence that the Navy's own negligence might have been responsible for the loss of the USS Scorpion, a submarine that disappeared with all hands at the height of the Cold War.
They disclose for the first time details of the bitter war between the CIA and the Navy and how it threatened to sabotage one of America's most important undersea missions. They tell the complete story of the audacious attempt to steal a Soviet submarine with the help of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and how it was doomed from the start.
And Sontag and Drew reveal how the Navy used the comforting notion of deep-sea rescue vehicles to hide operations that were more James Bond than Jacques Cousteau. Stretching from the years immediately after World War II to the post-Cold War new reality of warfare, Blind Mans Bluff reads like a spy thriller, but with one important difference - everything in it is true.
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Unseen (S 41) |
|
| Class: | 1990 - 1994: Upholder Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | 2400 |
|
Fate: Laid up 1995 then Lease/sold to Canadians 2000 became Victoria |
|
In Blind Mans Bluff, veteran investigative journalist Sherry Sontag and award-winning New York Times reporter Christopher Drew reveal an extraordinary underwater world. Showing for the first time how the American Navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables, Sontag and Drew unveil new evidence that the Navy's own negligence might have been responsible for the loss of the USS Scorpion, a submarine that disappeared with all hands at the height of the Cold War.
They disclose for the first time details of the bitter war between the CIA and the Navy and how it threatened to sabotage one of America's most important undersea missions. They tell the complete story of the audacious attempt to steal a Soviet submarine with the help of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and how it was doomed from the start.
And Sontag and Drew reveal how the Navy used the comforting notion of deep-sea rescue vehicles to hide operations that were more James Bond than Jacques Cousteau. Stretching from the years immediately after World War II to the post-Cold War new reality of warfare, Blind Mans Bluff reads like a spy thriller, but with one important difference - everything in it is true.
20 pages added or updated in the last 3 month
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