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.
| 1918 | L 5 | Completed |
| 1919 | L 18 | Completed |
| 1933 | Clyde (N 12) | Laid Down |
| 1943 | Sickle (P 224) | HMS Sickle torpedoes and sinks the German auxiliary submarine chaser UJ-2213/Heureux south of Nice, southern France. Sickle fired four torpedoes at it, one of which hit and sank the vessel and another which hit a cliff on the shore directly below a casino. This event resulted in James Ralph Drummond, the Lieutenant on HMS Sickle, being dubbed 'The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo'. |
| 1943 | Rorqual (N 74) | HMS Rorqual lays 50 mines off Punta Stilo, Calabria, Italy. |
| 1943 | Verve (P 28) | Laid Down |
| 1944 | Ultor (P 53) | HMS Ultor attacks and damages a French fishing vessel with gunfire off Cape Camarat, southern France. |
| 1944 | Upshot (P 82) | Completed |
| 1945 | Statesman (P 246) | HMS Statesman sinks a Japanese coaster with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca. |
| 1945 | Tiptoe (P 332) | HMS Tiptoe sinks a Japanese coaster with gunfire of Sumbawa Island, Netherlands East Indies. |
| 1945 | Clyde (N 12) | HMS Clyde sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire of the west coast of Siam. |
| 1960 | Otter (S 15) | Launched by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company |
| 1968 | Courageous (S 50) | Laid Down |
| Class: | 1944 - 1952: XE Class |
| Built By: | Broadbent (Huddersfield) |
| Build Group: | XE |
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| Sunk and used a bottom target 1954 off Portland. Later raised and preserved at Chatham. | |
Television drama starring David Jason. 40 years after a British submarine goes missing at the end of the war, it re-appears, and the British government send the remaining crew member (Jason) with a new crew to trace the sub's last happenings. But the new crew start showing characteristics of the old crew.
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| Class: | 1944 - 1952: XE Class |
| Built By: | Broadbent (Huddersfield) |
| Build Group: | XE |
| Fate: | |
| Sunk and used a bottom target 1954 off Portland. Later raised and preserved at Chatham. | |
Television drama starring David Jason. 40 years after a British submarine goes missing at the end of the war, it re-appears, and the British government send the remaining crew member (Jason) with a new crew to trace the sub's last happenings. But the new crew start showing characteristics of the old crew.
18 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
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