| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | SSBN3 |
To mark Trafalgar Day in 2016, Defence secretary Sir Michael Fallon announced that her Majesty the Queen has approved the name Dreadnought, for the lead Successor submarine which will protect our national security for years to come. The name is synonymous with Barrow's submarine heritage as 56 years earlier the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh attended a ceremony to mark the launch of Britain's first nuclear-powered submarine in 1960.
Dreadnought also has extensive historical significance, with the name borne by no fewer than nine Royal Navy ships. In 1588, Sir Francis Drake sailed a galleon called Dreadnought to help repel the Spanish Armada and more than 200 years later, another Dreadnought used its firepower to help Lord Nelson win the Battle of Trafalgar.
Construction officially began on the new Dreadnought in October 2016 when Sir Michael flew to Barrow to cut the first piece of steel.
On 14 December 2022, the pressure hull of the submarine was completed.
On 29 December 2022, the 12 ballistic missile tubes of Dreadnought, along with 36 tubes for the others in her class arrived in the UK from the US.
| 06-10-2016 | Defence secretary Michael Fallon cuts steel on first Successor-class submarine in Barrow |
| 21-10-2016 | First of class name officially announced of Trafalgar Day, which was also the day the first Dreadnought submarine was launched by HM Queen, the first nuclear powered submarine in the Royal Navy. |
| 20-03-2025 | A keel laying ceremony was held in the DDH at Barrow. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer performed the honours as work started on the backbone of the first of four third-generation ballistic missile submarine in Barrow, nearly ten years since the first steel was cut. To mark the key moment in the boat’s construction and to honour more than 150 years of shipbuilding in the town, 125 of them building submarines for the Royal Navy, His Majesty the King bestowed the honorary title ‘Royal’ on the Port of Barrow |
| Displacement | 17,200 tons (16,900 long tons; 19,000 short tons) |
| Length | 152.9 metres |
| Propulsion | Nuclear reactor, turbo-electric drive, pump-jet |
| Range | Unlimited |
| Armament | 12 x Lockheed Trident II D5 SLBMs (carrying up to 8 warheads each) |
| 4 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes for: Spearfish heavyweight torpedoes | |
| Complement | 130 |
| Class: | 1943 - 1977: Amphion Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | Amphion |
| Fate: | |
| Mounted on jetty Dolphin II as part of Submarine Museum June 1981 | |
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| Displacement | 17,200 tons (16,900 long tons; 19,000 short tons) |
| Length | 152.9 metres |
| Propulsion | Nuclear reactor, turbo-electric drive, pump-jet |
| Range | Unlimited |
| Armament | 12 x Lockheed Trident II D5 SLBMs (carrying up to 8 warheads each) |
| 4 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes for: Spearfish heavyweight torpedoes | |
| Complement | 130 |
| Class: | 1943 - 1977: Amphion Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | Amphion |
| Fate: | |
| Mounted on jetty Dolphin II as part of Submarine Museum June 1981 | |
11 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
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