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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 - May 17
| 1912 | E 5 (I 85) | Launched |
| 1912 | A 3 | Raised and used as target and sunk |
| 1917 | Sea Lions | Second experiment using Sea Lions to detect submarines begins |
| 1917 | G 14 (I 6C) | Launched |
| 1919 | H 33 | Completed |
| 1919 | L 71 | Launched |
| 1945 | Terrapin (P 323) | HMS Terrapin sinks a Japanese sailing vessel and damages another with gunfire in the western part of the Java Sea. |
| 1945 | Tiptoe (P 332) | HMS Tiptoe sinks a Japanese coaster with gunfire of Sumbawa Island, Netherlands East Indies. |
| 1945 | Ambush (P 418) | Laid Down |
| 1958 | Aurochs (P 426) | Aurochs was patrolling the Molucca Sea off Indonesia when an unidentified aircraft machine-gunned her. No casualties or damage were sustained. President Sukarno's Indonesian government told the UK Government that its armed forces had not made the attack. The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office stated that it accepted the assurance and assumed that North Celebes insurgents had carried out the attack. |
