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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 - March 6

1908	C 28 (I 58)	Laid Down
1917	K 8	Completed
1917	H 22	Laid Down
1942	Thunderbolt (N 25)	HMS Thunderbolt attacks the German submarine U-431 south-west of Crete. The German submarine escapes unharmed.
1943	Taurus (P 339)	HMS Taurus torpedoes and sinks the Spanish merchant Bartolo off Marseille, southern France.
1944	Sea Rover (P 218)	HMS Sea Rover sinks a small Japanese vessel with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
1945	XE 11 (Lucifer)	XE11 was lost while exercising in Loch Striven when she collided with a boom defence vessel that was laying buoys.
1945	Supreme (P 252)	HMS Supreme sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire of the east coast of Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies.

Lastest Comments

15/02/2026 on page Taurus (P 339)
Dillon Pringle wrote:
	My great grandfather served aboard this vessel during the war. My grandfather recalls him telling stories about how terrible it was. However, a duty must be done.
31/12/2025 on page Unruly (P 49)
Prue Hames wrote:
	My Father served on HMS Unruly - Able Seaman John Smith DSM
05/12/2025 on page The History Of British Submarine Sonars
Alan Moore wrote:
	The interim sonar prior to 2046 was 2061 not 2062. I worked on 2031z and 2061 between 1985 & 1987 at ARE Portland North. If I looked up from my desk I had a great view of a portion of Portland Harbour and lots of Weymouth Bay.
30/11/2025 on page Affray (P 421)
richard lacey wrote:
	Not sure that a raised periscope and radar indicate a dived situation, as on my sub, they were always raised on the surface; otherwise, they could not be used
17/11/2025 on page P 222
Grace Absolom wrote:
	Richard William Absolom is my grandfather. He was my dad\'s father. My dad was 3 years old when the P222 disappeared. We often talk about what might have happened.

RN Subs

Featured Boat

E 39
Class:	1911 - 1924: E Class
Built By:	/ Armstrong Whitworth (Tyne)
Build Group:	E3
Fate: Sold 13th October 1921.

Norwegian investigative journalist Alf Jacobsen relates one of the most incredible tales of the Second World War, in which Royal Navy X-craft midget submarines attacked the German battleship Tirpitz in Norway.

A daring plan was hatched by the Admiralty to sink Tirpitz using midget submarines to plant high explosive mines beneath the ship's keel.

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