| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | A2 |
| Fate: | Broken up in 1920. |
| 1909: | Lieutenant | Harrington Douty Edwards | |
| 1910: | Lieutenant | John Graham Bower | |
| 1910: | Lieutenant | Cornelius Octavius Regnart | |
| 1911: | Lieutenant | John Kyrle Perrott Sherlock | |
| 1911: | Lieutenant | George Augustus Saltren-Willett | |
| 1912: | Lieutenant | George Pilkington | |
| 1912: | Lieutenant | Alton Wishart | |
| 1913: | Lieutenant | Norman Douglas Holbrook | |
| 1913: | Lieutenant | Edward Reginald Lewes | |
| 1914: | Lieutenant | Alfred James Brewster |
1914-15: 2nd Flotilla, Portsmouth
What appears to have escaped the eyes of researchers so far is that the first diesel-engined submarine in the Royal Navy was HMS A.13X. Launched at Barrow in 1905. The boat was fitted with what is described now as "a heavy oil engine." It was in fact a diesel engine designed and built by Vickers.
Ruston-Hornsby, then Hornsby, had designed an oil engine but it was rejected on account of being "too heavy". The Vickers design was used instead. Yet diesel propulsion was not generally used until the advent of the D class boats.
| 18-04-1905 | Launched |
| 22-06-1908 | Completed |
| Class: | 1943 - 1946: XT Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | XT |
A collection of song lyrics, poems and humorous observations informed by the authors' combined experiences in the Royal Navy 1950s-1980s
Richard Barr and Bernie Bruen met while serving in the Royal Navy in the 1970s aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Bulwark. With other crew members they formed a ship's band, which went on to perform under the unlikely name The Malawi International Airways String Quartet, MIASQ for short, entertaining audiences in various far-flung parts of the world with their light-hearted ditties about nautical life
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| Class: | 1943 - 1946: XT Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | XT |
A collection of song lyrics, poems and humorous observations informed by the authors' combined experiences in the Royal Navy 1950s-1980s
Richard Barr and Bernie Bruen met while serving in the Royal Navy in the 1970s aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Bulwark. With other crew members they formed a ship's band, which went on to perform under the unlikely name The Malawi International Airways String Quartet, MIASQ for short, entertaining audiences in various far-flung parts of the world with their light-hearted ditties about nautical life
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