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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 - October 21

1918	Last torpedo of WWI	The final German torpedo of World War I was fired in the Irish Sea, sinking a small British merchant ship, the Saint Barcham, and drowning its eight crewmen.
1918	H 42	Launched
1937	Maidstone (F44) 1937 - 1978	Launched
1941	Rorqual (N 74)	HMS Rorqual lays 10 mines off Isola dei Cavoli off south-east Sardinia.
1942	Graph (P 715)	While on patrol in the Bay of Biscay, HMS Graph attacks but misses the German submarine U-333 with four torpedoes about 50 nautical miles north-north-east of Cape Ortegal, Spain.
1944	Spark (P 236)	HMS Spark arrives at Trincomalee to join the Eastern Fleet.
1944	Tantivy (P 319)	While operating in Makassar Strait HMS Tantivy sinks with gunfire, eight small Japanese vessels.
1960	Dreadnought (S 101)	Launched
2016	Dreadnought (S 126)	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.

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11/10/2026 on page Sahib (P 212)
Barry wrote:
	My father, Kenneth Hutchinson, served on the Sahib as a Stoker 1st Class. He was captured and then imprisoned in an Italian POW camp; he escaped along with a friend who was later wounded. They got back safely; Dad was mentioned in Dispatches and awarded the Oakleaf.

29/09/2026 on page Chariots
Rhys Nolan wrote:
	In relation to the Operation Title, the fishing boat Arthur was not "newly built" in fact built 1898, lengthened at some point and converted for the operation. I have not seen any records of the mentioned breakdowns in the writings by Leif Larsen, doesn't mean that there weren't, just surprising he ...

22/09/2026 on page P 222
Colin Megill wrote:
	The night of December 12th, 1942, my grandfather, conscripted into the Italian infantry, departed by troop ship from Trapani, Sicily, some 200 miles southwest of where the P222 disappeared, and made the crossing to Bizerte, Tunisia. He made it safely home after years as a prisoner of war after their ...

19/09/2026 on page Israeli sub wreck found 31 years on
Janet Burns wrote:
	My Dad was the chief stocker on the Totem 45/47 I have his Talisman, unfortunately he passed away at 39 in 1962. I am so proud of him.

19/09/2026 on page Renown (S 26)
Alan Hewitt wrote:
	Commanding Officer (Port crew) 1972 - 1976 Commander H N M Thompson RN

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Visigoth (P 76)
Class:	1941 - 1958: V Class
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Build Group:	V2
Fate: Scrapped in April 1950 at Hayle.

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