| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | SSBN3 |
| 25-02-2019 | The Secretary of State for Defence, the Right Honourable Gavin Williamson CBE MP, announced "Warspite" as the name of the third in class submarine for the Dreadnought programme. |
| 09-02-2022 | Construction starts on the third Dreadnought-class submarine, Warspite, at its shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. Steve Timms, managing director of BAE Systems' Submarines business, said: 'Today's milestone is a really significant moment for the thousands of employees here at BAE Systems and across the submarines enterprise who are working together to deliver the Dreadnought Class.' 'We are immensely proud of the role we play in delivering this truly national endeavour for the Royal Navy and our contribution to protecting national security.' Attending the ceremony, Defence Procurement Minister Alex Chalk KC said, "Our nuclear deterrent protects every UK citizen from the most extreme threats, every minute of every day, and progress on the Dreadnought Class is crucial to maintaining our national security. 'This milestone is a significant step forward in the Dreadnought programme, supporting thousands of jobs and apprenticeships across the country and protecting the UK and our allies for decades to come.' |
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| Admiralty Approved | 2nd Dec, 1919 | |
| Motto | Belli dura despicio. (I despise the hard knocks of war.) | |
| Symbology | An Elizabethan composite word ('war despite'). | |
| Design Notes | A ship's gun of c.1600 on its truck, all gold on a green field. | |
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| Motto | Belli dura despicio. (I despise the hard knocks of war.) | |
| Symbology | The design is a clever visual pun combining the words "war" and "spite". The woodpecker, a bird known for its aggressive and persistent pecking, represents the "spite" element. The wooden post represents the object of its aggression. Together, they illustrate a "war of spite". | |
| Design Notes | A woodpecker proper. The bird is shown in a climbing pose, clinging vertically to the side of a large, jagged wooden branch. The woodpecker is facing the sinister and appears to be pecking at the wood on a blue field. | |
| 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 x 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes for: Spearfish heavyweight torpedoes | |
| Complement | 130 |
| Class: | 1941 - 1958: V Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | V2 |
| Fate: | |
| Scrapped in March 1950 at Milford Haven. | |
The story of HM Submarine Upholder, ordered just days before the Second World War started.
Serving with the 10th Submarine Flotilla, she was commanded by David Wanklyn VC. One of the most successful British submarines of World War Two, sinking two destroyers, three submarines, three transports, ten merchant ships, two tankers and one trawler, totalling 128,353 tons of shipping.
Upholder sailed out of Grand Harbour, Valetta, in Malta in April 1942, never to be seen again, and is believed sunk off the Lybian coast, near Tripoli.
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| Official | ||
| Admiralty Approved | 2nd Dec, 1919 | |
| Motto | Belli dura despicio. (I despise the hard knocks of war.) | |
| Symbology | An Elizabethan composite word ('war despite'). | |
| Design Notes | A ship's gun of c.1600 on its truck, all gold on a green field. | |
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| Unofficial | ||
| Motto | Belli dura despicio. (I despise the hard knocks of war.) | |
| Symbology | The design is a clever visual pun combining the words "war" and "spite". The woodpecker, a bird known for its aggressive and persistent pecking, represents the "spite" element. The wooden post represents the object of its aggression. Together, they illustrate a "war of spite". | |
| Design Notes | A woodpecker proper. The bird is shown in a climbing pose, clinging vertically to the side of a large, jagged wooden branch. The woodpecker is facing the sinister and appears to be pecking at the wood on a blue field. | |
| 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 x 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes for: Spearfish heavyweight torpedoes | |
| Complement | 130 |
| Class: | 1941 - 1958: V Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | V2 |
| Fate: | |
| Scrapped in March 1950 at Milford Haven. | |
The story of HM Submarine Upholder, ordered just days before the Second World War started.
Serving with the 10th Submarine Flotilla, she was commanded by David Wanklyn VC. One of the most successful British submarines of World War Two, sinking two destroyers, three submarines, three transports, ten merchant ships, two tankers and one trawler, totalling 128,353 tons of shipping.
Upholder sailed out of Grand Harbour, Valetta, in Malta in April 1942, never to be seen again, and is believed sunk off the Lybian coast, near Tripoli.
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