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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 - May 14

1907 D 1 (I 71) Laid Down
1917 L 54 Laid Down
1918 R 7 Launched
1930 Rainbow (N 16) Launched
1939 Forth (F04) 1938 - 1978 Commissioned
1941 Thrasher (N 37) Completed
1942 Turbulent (N 98) HMS Turbulent sinks the Italian sailing vessel San Giusto with gunfire 10 miles east of Apollonia, Greece.
1942 Traveller (N 48) After a work up period in the Clyde area HMS Traveller departed Holy Loch for Gibraltar. She makes the first part of the passage through the Irish sea together with P211 and P43. They were escorted until Bishops Rock by the British minesweeper/escort vessel HMS La Capricieuse (former French)
1943 Trident (N 52) HMS Trident unsuccesfully fires 4 torpedoes at the French passenger/cargo ship Cap Corse north-west of Corsica.
1943 O 23 (Dutch) O23 is slightly damaged when the Dutch accommodation/depot ship Plancius slips her moorings during strong winds. O23 was moored alongside and was damaged by a buoy. A diver found some damage to the submarine which required her to dock for repairs.
1944 Sickle (P 224) HMS Sickle claims the sinking of a sailing vessel with gunfire north of Rhetymon, Crete.
1944 Tally-Ho (P 317) HMS Tally-Ho lays mines in the Strait of Malacca.
1945 Springer (P 264) Launched
1947 Alliance (P 417) Completed
2018 Achilles (S 125) During a visit to the Barrow yard the Secretary of State for Defence, The Right Honourable Gavin Williamson awarded a £1.5bn contract for delivery of the seventh Astute class submarine and announced it would be named Agincourt.
Lastest Comments
08/05/2025 on page Tetrarch (N 77)
Sev wrote:
Hi, my grandmother\'s little brother was lost on HMS Tetrach. Wilfred Evans, gone but never forgotten.
19/03/2025 on page C 19 (I 49)
Colin Marsh wrote:
My Grandfather Samuel Marsh served on the c19 during WW1. I still have his dog tag.
12/03/2025 on page Disaster Beneath the Waves
RH Deacon wrote:
Several A class boats suffered battery explsions whilst on the surface including Alliance and Auriga which caased considerable devwestation and on Alliance killed a man and injured 17. It is my belief that Affray too suffered a similar explosion whilst snorting, the explosion in this case being cont ...
10/02/2025 on page Vivid (P 77)
Mr P J King Ex RNR (Vivid) wrote:
The Bell of HM S/M Vivid is currently in the possession of HMS Vivid the RNR unit in Plymouth. it was presented to the then Headquarters\' unit in 1957/8 by Lt J C Varley the boats first commanding officer.
29/01/2025 on page Alan West - HMS Explorer
Acting Cera, Paul Eade wrote:
This is bringing back some deep memories .Campbelltown is now written on my soul I remember the trip to Copenhagen with the side trip to Gothenburg in Sweden. The fuel pump drive on the diesel was giving trouble. I also remember a spell in Scott\'s yard to get the combustion chamber fixed. One o ...