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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 - September 15

1915	E 16 (I 96)	Sank U-6 in the North Sea
1917	L 21	Laid Down
1941	HMS Forth	Submarine depot ship HMS Forth commences refit in the USA.
1941	Tigris (N 63)	HMS Tigris fires four torpedoes against the German merchant Bessheim in Lopphavet, Norway. All torpedoes missed.
1944	Voracious (P 78)	HMS Voracious fires three torpedoes against the German auxiliary submarine chaser UJ 2110 5 nautical miles north of Skopelos Island, Greece. All torpedoes miss.
1956	Finwhale (S 05)	Laid Down
1958	Sleuth (P 261)	Scrapped at Charlestown
1966	Resolution (S 22)	Launched
2012	Ambush (S 120)	Ambush set sail for the first time as she left Barrow for sea trails. The 7,400-tonne, nuclear powered attack submarine left Ramsden Dock about 11am and made her way out through Walney Channel with about 98 crew members on board. Onlookers, many of whom arrived hours earlier to secure prime viewing positions waved and cheered as the ?1.2bn feat of British and Barrow engineering went past.

Lastest Comments

29/08/2026 on page Stratagem (P 234)
Clare Cunningham wrote:
	My Uncle Frederick Hayes was a stoker on board when she went down. I’m trying to find as much information as possible. I’d love to see some pictures of the crew if there ever were any. His name is on the war memorial in Plymouth, UK, and whenever any of the family are near the memorial, we alway ...

06/08/2026 on page Finwhale (S 05)
Jones wrote:
	Just to confirm, the submarine was sunk off the Western Approaches. I was the Nav Officer on board the Admiralty tug RMAS Rollicker, and we towed the submarine from Loch Ewe out into the NW Approaches for a 'sinkex'; however, we hit Storm Force 11, which forced us to cancel the sinkex. A few months ...

23/07/2026 on page Token (P 328)
Legs D. wrote:
	Token was my very first boat from 1963 to 1965. During that period, for about 6 months, we were refitted with a 4inch gun. For some reason I was chosen to be a sight setter (I was a baby AB RP3). This became a 'Boy's Own' adventure for me. The 'sight setter' happened to be fourth in the queue to get ...

13/05/2026 on page H 49
kevin walker wrote:
	believe was also attacked on 1-10-1940 near Texel by Sperrbrecher 3/H3 (ex M/S Belgrad) with pattern of 4 depth charges

16/04/2026 on page Thorough (P 324)
navy42 wrote:
	Lord Kitchener was lost in the sinking of HMS Hampshire, denoted by the black field. As Secretary of State, he initiated the recruiting scheme which raised the new army. The first complete New Army formation (as opposed to divisions) as a result of this scheme was the 4th Army under the command of G ...

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