Petro-electric submarines

• Holland class
  Holland class submarine
  The Holland-class were the first submarines built for the Royal Navy. They were built by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. The first three were designed by John Philip Holland. The Hollands were built under licence from the Holland Torpedo Boat Company/Electric Boat Company during the years 1901 to 1903...
  
  
  • Holland 1, launched: 2 October 1901, decommissioned: 5 November 1913
  • Holland 2
  • Holland 3
  • Holland 4
  • Holland 5
• A class
  • A1
    HMS A1
    HMS A1 was the Royal Navy's first British-designed submarine, and their first to suffer fatal casualties.She was the lead ship of the first British A-class submarines , and the only one to have a single bow torpedo tube...
    
    , launched: 9 July 1902
  • A2
    HMS A2
    HMS A2 was an early Royal Navy submarine. She was launched in 1903 and sold for scrap in 1925.-Design and construction:She was a member of the first British class of submarines, although slightly bigger than the lead ship, HMS A1. Like all boats in her class, she was built at Vickers,...
    
    
  • A3
    HMS A3
    HMS A3 was an early Royal Navy submarine.She was a member of the first British A-class of submarines, although slightly bigger than the lead boat, . She was built at Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness and was commissioned on 13 July 1904. She was accidentally rammed whilst surfacing by the submarine tender...
    
    
  • A4
    HMS A4
    HMS A4 was an early Royal Navy submarine.She was a member of the first British A-class of submarines. Like all her class, she was built at Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness....
    
    
  • A5
    HMS A5
    HMS A5 was an early Royal Navy submarine. She was a member of Group Two of the first British A-class of submarines...
    
    
  • A6
    HMS A6
    HMS A6 was an early Royal Navy submarine.She was a member of Group Two of the first British A-class of submarines . In common with the other members of her class, she was built at Vickers Barrow-in-Furness.-External links:*...
    
    
  • A7
    HMS A7
    HMS A7 was an early Royal Navy submarine.She was a member of Group Two of the first British A-class of submarines...
    
    
  • A8
    HMS A8
    HMS A8 was an early Royal Navy submarine.She was a member of Group Two of the first British A-class of submarines...
    
    
  • A9
    HMS A9
    HMS A9 was an early Royal Navy submarine.She was a member of Group Two of the first British A-class of submarines ....
    
    
  • A10
    HMS A10
    HMS A10 was an early Royal Navy submarine.She was a member of Group Two of the first British A-class of submarines . Like all members of her class, she was built at Vickers Barrow-in-Furness.-External links:*...
    
    
  • A11
    HMS A11
    HMS A11 was an early Royal Navy submarine.She was a member of Group Two of the first British A-class of submarines . As with the other members of her class, she was built at Vickers Barrow-in-Furness.-External links:*...
    
    
  • A12
    HMS A12
    HMS A12 was an early Royal Navy submarine.She was a member of Group Two of the first British A-class of submarines . As with the other members of her class, she was built at Vickers Barrow-in-Furness.-External links:*...
    
    
  • A13
    HMS A13
    HMS A13 was a British A class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 19 February 1903 and was commissioned on 22 June 1908....
    
    
• B class
  British B class submarine
  The B-class was a class of 11 submarines, built by Vickers in Barrow-in-Furness for the Royal Navy, and launched in 1904–06. One boat was sunk by a collision in 1912, but the remainder served in World War I. Three boats protected the transfer of the British Expeditionary Force to France in 1914,...
  
  
  • 11 boats, 1904–1906
• C class
  British C class submarine
  The British C class submarines were the last class of petrol engined submarines of the Royal Navy and marked the end of the development of the Holland-class in the Royal Navy...
  
  
  • 38 boats, 1906–1910

Pre-Second World War

• D class
  British D class submarine
  There were plans for a further two, D9 and D10, but these were launched at Chatham Dockyard as HMS E1 and HMS E2.-See also:*Not to be confused with the United States D class submarine of 1909-1910.-Sources:...
  
  
• E class
  British E class submarine
  The British E class submarines started out as improved versions of the British D class submarine. All of the first group and some of the second group were completed before the outbreak of World War I....
  
  
• F class
  British F class submarine
  The F class submarine was built for the Royal Navy as a coastal submarine based on the doubled hulled V class submarine with very few minor improvements. The only important improvement was the addition of a stern torpedo tube...
  
  
• S class
  British S class submarine (1914)
  The British S class submarine of 1914 were built by Scotts, Greenock just before World War I. The S class was based on an Italian design of the Laurenti boats.The design had ten internal bulkheads.Three vessels were constructed...
  
  
• V class
  British V class submarine (1914)
  The British V class submarines were built by Vickers, Barrow during World War I in response to Scotts, Greenock building the British S class submarine and Armstrong Whitworth building the British W class submarine.4 V class submarines were built....
  
  
• W class
  British W class submarine
  The W class submarines were built for the Royal Navy as experimental boats. They were based on a French Schneider-Laubeuf design. The design for W3 and W4 was heavily modified to meet Royal Navy requirements, overcoming some of the deficiencies of the 'off the shelf' design...
  
  
• G class
  British G class submarine
  The Royal Navy's G-class of diesel/electric submarines were launched between 1914 and 1917, and intended for operations in the North Sea and German Bight in World War I against German U-boats. The design was based on the E-class, adopting the double hull concept, but in practice showed little...
  
  
• H class
  British H class submarine
  The British H class submarines were Holland 602 type submarines used by the Royal Navy. The submarines constructed for the British Royal Navy between 1915 and 1919 were designed and built in response to German boats which mined British waters and sank coastal shipping with ease due to their small...
  
  
• J class
  British J class submarine
  The J class of submarines was a seven submarine class developed by the Royal Navy prior to the First World War in response to claims that Germany was developing submarines that were fast enough to operate alongside surface fleets...
  
  
• K class
  British K class submarine
  The K class submarines were a class of steam-propelled submarines of the Royal Navy designed in 1913. Intended as large, fast vessels which had the endurance and speed to operate with the battle fleet, they gained notoriety, and the nickname of Kalamity class, for being involved in many accidents....
  
  
  • HMS K1
    HMS K1
    HMS K1 was a First World War steam turbine-propelled K-class submarine of the Royal Navy.She was sunk to prevent her from being captured following a collision with off the Danish coast. She had been patrolling on the surface as part of a flotilla of submarines operating in line ahead...
    
    
  • HMS K2
    HMS K2
    HMS K2 was the second of the K class submarines and was built at HM Dockyard, Portsmouth, England. She was laid down on 13 November 1915 and was commissioned in May 1917 one year before the end of World War I.K2 had an unsuccessful start...
    
    
  • HMS K3
    HMS K3
    HMS K3 was the lead ship of the British K class submarines. She was laid down on 21 May 1915 by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. She was commissioned on 4 August 1916.In December 1916, K3, with the future King George VI aboard,...
    
    
  • HMS K4
    HMS K4
    HMS K4 was a British K class submarine built by Vickers in Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 28 June 1915 and commissioned on 1 January 1917, one year before the end of World War I.- Accident 17 November 1917 :...
    
    
  • HMS K5
    HMS K5
    HMS K5 was one of the K-class submarines that served in the Royal Navy from 1917-1921. She was lost with all hands when she sank en route to a mock battle in the Bay of Biscay.-War service:...
    
    
  • HMS K6
    HMS K6
    HMS K6 was a British K class submarine built by HM Dockyard, Devonport. She was laid down on the 8 November 1915 and commissioned in May 1917.K6 was the first of the K class to have its bows raised by converting it into a bulbous swan shape....
    
    
  • HMS K7
    HMS K7
    HMS K7 was a K class submarine built by HM Dockyard, Devonport. She was laid down on 8 November 1915 and commissioned in July 1917.K7 was involved in the accident with the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron. She was also involved in the Battle of May Island exercise...
    
    
  • HMS K8
    HMS K8
    HMS K8 was a British K class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 28 June 1915 and was commissioned on 6 March 1917. K8 was sold on 11 October 1923.- References :...
    
    
  • HMS K9
    HMS K9
    HMS K9 was a K class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. K9 was laid down on 28 June 1915. She was commissioned on 9 May 1917. In 1921, K9 was placed in reserve. K9 was sold in Charlestown on 23 July 1926.-References:...
    
    
  • HMS K10
    HMS K10
    HMS K10 was a K class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 28 June 1915. She was commissioned on 26 June 1917. K10 was sold on 4 November 1921. K10 foundered in tow on 10 January 1922.-References:...
    
    
  • HMS K11
    HMS K11
    HMS K11 was a K class submarine built by Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle upon Tyne. K11 was laid down in October 1915, and commissioned in February 1917....
    
    
  • HMS K12
    HMS K12
    HMS K12 was a K class submarine built by Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle upon Tyne. She was laid down in October 1915 and commissioned in August 1917....
    
    
  • HMS K13
    HMS K13
    HMS K13 was a steam-propelled First World War K class submarine of the British Royal Navy. She sank in a fatal accident during sea trials in early 1917 and was salvaged and recommissioned as HMS K22....
    
    
  • HMS K14
    HMS K14
    HMS K14 was a K class submarine built by Fairfields in Govan, Scotland. She was laid down in November 1915, and commissioned on 22 May 1917....
    
    
  • HMS K15
    HMS K15
    HMS K15 was a K class submarine built by Scotts, Greenock. She was laid down on 19 April 1916 and was commissioned on 30 April 1918.K15 sank due to an accident, when moored alongside the light cruiser at Portsmouth Harbour on 25 June 1921. She was then salved in July 1921. K15 was sold in August...
    
    
  • HMS K16
    HMS K16
    HMS K16 was a K class submarine built by William Beardmore and Company, Dalmuir. She was laid down in June 1916 and commissioned on 13 April 1918....
    
    
  • HMS K17
    HMS K17
    HMS K17 was a British K class submarine built by Vickers in Barrow-in-Furness.- Loss :K17 was sunk on 31 January 1918 during the night time fleet exercises later known as the Battle of May Island when she was attached to the 13th Submarine Flotilla. ploughed into K17 at the head of a line of...
    
    
  • HMS K26
    HMS K26
    HMS K26 was the only modified K-class submarine of Britain's Royal Navy to be completed. One of six ordered, she was laid down towards the end of the First World War but not completed until five years after its end....
    
    
• L class
  British L class submarine
  The British L class submarine were originally planned under the emergency war programme as an improved version of the British E class submarine. The scale of change allowed the L class to become a separate class....
  
  
• M class
  British M class submarine
  The British Royal Navy M-class submarines were a small class of diesel electric submarine built during World War I. The unique feature of the class was a 12-inch gun mounted in a turret forward of the conning tower.-Background:...
  
  
  • HMS M1
    HMS M1
    HMS M1 was a submarine of the British Royal Navy, one of four vessels of her class ordered towards the end of the First World War. She sank with the loss of her entire crew in 1925....
    
    
  • HMS M2
    HMS M2
    HMS M2 was a Royal Navy aircraft-carrying submarine shipwrecked in Lyme Bay, Dorset, Britain, on 26 January 1932. She was one of three M-class boats completed.Four M-class submarines replaced the order for the last four K-class, K17-K21...
    
    
  • HMS M3
    HMS M3
    HMS M3, built by Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle Upon Tyne was an M class submarine of the Royal Navy.M3 was ordered from Armstrong Whitworth on 28 July 1916 and laid down at Elswick in December as an M-class submarine, but was referred to as K20. She was launched on 19 October 1919, and...
    
    
  • HMS M4
    HMS M4
    HMS M4 was an M-class submarine of the Royal Navy built by Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle Upon Tyne, and laid down in 1917. M4 was cancelled and sold as an incomplete hulk on 30 November 1921.- References :...
    
    
• Nautilus class
  Nautilus class submarine (1917)
  HMS Nautilus was the largest submarine built for the Royal Navy at the time and the first to be given a name.Nautilus was designed in response to recommendations for an overseas submarine displacing 1,000 tons and capable of...
  
  
• R class
  British R class submarine
  The R-class submarines were a class of 12 small British diesel-electric submarines built for the Royal Navy during World War I, and were forerunners of the modern hunter-killer submarines, in that they were designed specifically to attack and sink enemy submarines, their battery capacity and hull...
  
  
• HMS X1
  HM Submarine X1
  HM Submarine X1 was conceived and designed as a submersible commerce raider for the Royal Navy; at the time of her launching she was the largest submarine in the world. The idea of a submarine cruiser had been proposed as early as 1915, but was not put into practice until 1921...
  
  
• Odin class
  Odin class submarine
  The Odin class submarine was a class of nine submarines developed and built for the Royal Navy in the 1920s. The prototype was followed by two ships originally ordered for the Royal Australian Navy, but transferred to the RN in 1931 because of the poor economic situation in Australia, and six...
  
  
• Parthian class
  Parthian class submarine
  The Parthian class submarine or P class was a class of six submarines built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. They were designed as long-range patrol submarines for the Far East. These ships were almost identical to the Odin class, the only difference being a different bow...
  
  

• Rainbow class
  Rainbow class submarine
  The Rainbow class submarine or R class was a class of four submarines built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. They were designed as long range patrol submarines for the Far East and were essentially repeats of the preceding Parthian class submarines with minor modifications...
  
  
• S class
  British S class submarine (1931)
  The S-class submarines of the Royal Navy were originally designed and built during the modernisation of the submarine force in the early 1930s to meet the need for smaller boats to patrol the restricted waters of the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea replacing the British H class submarines...
  
  
• River or Thames class
  River class submarine
  The River class, or Thames class were a class of submarines built for the Royal Navy.They were the last attempt by the Admiralty to produce "Fleet Submarines" that is submarines fast enough to operate as part of a fleet which at the time meant being able to manage somewhere around while surfaced...
  
  
  • HMS Thames (N71)
    HMS Thames (N71)
    HMS Thames was an ocean-going type of submarine of the River Class. She was built by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow and launched on 26 February 1932. She was completed on 14 September 1932, and after commissioning was assigned to the Mediterranean, stationed at Malta.-Service history:She had a short...
    
    
  • HMS Severn (N57)
    HMS Severn (N57)
    HMS Severn was an ocean-going type of submarine of the River Class. She was built by Vickers Armstrong, at Barrow, and launched on 16 January 1934. She was completed on 12 January 1935.-Construction:...
    
    
  • HMS Clyde (N12)
    HMS Clyde (N12)
    HMS Clyde was an ocean-going submarine of the River Class. She was built by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow and launched on 15 March 1934. Building was completed on 12 April 1935.-Service history:...
    
    
• Grampus class
  Grampus class submarine
  The Grampus-class submarines were a group of minelaying submarines built for the Royal Navy in the late 1930s. These boats are sometimes referred to as the Porpoise class from the single prototype, HMS Porpoise built in 1932. Five boats to a modified design were built between 1936 and 1938...
  
  
• T class
  British T class submarine
  The Royal Navy's T class of diesel-electric submarines was designed in the 1930s to replace the O, P and R classes. Fifty-three members of the class were built just before and during the Second World War, where they played a major role in the Royal Navy's submarine operations...
  
  

Second World War to mid-1950s

• Undine class
  British U class submarine
  The British U class submarines were a class of 49 small submarines built just before and during the Second World War...
  
  
• P611 class
  Oruç Reis class submarine
  The Oruç Reis class submarines were ordered by the Turkish Navy from the British company Vickers in 1939. They were similar to the British S class submarines, but slightly smaller. They had the S class machinery but only four bow torpedo tubes...
  
  
  • HMS P614
  • HMS P612
  • HMS P611
    HMS P611
    HMS P611 was a submarine of the Oruç Reis class originally built for the Turkish Navy, but commissioned into the Royal Navy after the outbreak of war....
    
    
  • HMS P615
• Umpire class
  British U class submarine
  The British U class submarines were a class of 49 small submarines built just before and during the Second World War...
  
  
• Vampire class
  British V class submarine
  The British V class submarine was a class of submarines built for the Royal Navy during World War II. 42 vessels were ordered to this design, all to be built by Vickers-Armstrong at either Barrow-in-Furness or at Walker-on-Tyne, but only 22 were completed...
  
  
• Amphion class
  Amphion class submarine
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  • Amphion (P439/S43)
    HMS Amphion (P439)
    HMS Amphion , was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers Armstrong and launched 31 August 1944.HMS Amphion, later S-43, was the first of the class to be launched in August 1944...
    
    
  • Astute (P447)
    HMS Astute (P447)
    HMS Astute was an Amphion-class submarine. Her keel was laid down by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness. She was launched in 1944 and commissioned in 1945.Astute was scrapped on 1 October 1970 at Dunston on Tyne.-External links:*...
    
    
  • Auriga (P419/S69)
    HMS Auriga (P419)
    HMS Auriga , was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers Armstrong and launched 29 March 1945.-External links:*...
    
    
  • Aurochs (P426)
    HMS Aurochs (P426)
    HMS Aurochs , was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers Armstrong and launched 28 July 1945. Her namesake was the aurochs , an extinct Eurasian wild ox ancestral to domestic cattle and often portrayed in cave art and heraldry.On 17 May 1958 Aurochs was patrolling the...
    
    
  • Alcide (P415/S65)
    HMS Alcide (P415)
    HMS Alcide , was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers-Armstrongs and launched 12 April 1945.-External links:*...
    
    
  • Alderney (P416/S66)
    HMS Alderney (P416)
    HMS Alderney , was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers-Armstrongs at Barrow and launched 25 June 1945 by Mrs Molly Wallis, wife of Sir Barnes Wallis.-External links:*...
    
    
  • Alliance (P417/S67)
    HMS Alliance (P417)
    HMS Alliance is a Royal Navy A-class, Amphion class or Acheron class submarine, laid down towards the end of the Second World War and completed in 1947...
    
    
  • Ambush (P418)
    HMS Ambush (P418)
    HMS Ambush , was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers Armstrong and launched 24 September 1945.In 1948 she took part in trials of the Schnorkel....
    
    
  • Anchorite (P422)
    HMS Anchorite (P422)
    HMS Anchorite , was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers Armstrong and launched 22 January 1946.During build and before launch the names of Anchorite and HMS Amphion were switched....
    
    
  • Andrew (P423/S63)
    HMS Andrew (P423)
    HMS Andrew , was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Vickers Armstrong and launched on 6 April 1946.The submarine was fitted with a 4 inch deck gun in 1964 for service during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation to counter blockade running junks. The gun was fired for the...
    
    
  • Affray (P421)
    HMS Affray (P421)
    HMS Affray , a British Amphion-class submarine was the last Royal Navy submarine to be lost at sea, on 16 April 1951, with the loss of 75 lives...
    
    
  • Aeneas (P427/S72)
    HMS Aeneas (P427)
    HMS Aeneas , named after the hero Aeneas from Greek mythology, was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Cammell Laird and launched 9 October 1945....
    
    
  • Alaric (P441)
    HMS Alaric (P441)
    HMS Alaric , was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Cammell Laird and launched 18 February 1946.-External links:*...
    
    
  • Artemis (P449/S49)
    HMS Artemis (P449)
    HMS Artemis , was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. of Greenock and launched 28 August 1946....
    
    
  • Artful (P456/S96)
    HMS Artful (P456)
    HMS Artful , was an of the Royal Navy, built by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Greenock and launched 22 May 1944.-External links:*...
    
    
  • Acheron (P411/S61)
    HMS Acheron (P411)
    HMS Acheron was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, laid down 26 August 1944, launched 25 March 1947, completed 1948 and carried out 'General Naval Service' around the UK until the end of 1964. For the next 2 years she was loaned to the Canadian Navy. She was decommissioned and broken up...
    
    
  • Ace (P414)
    HMS Ace (P414)
    HMS Ace was the name allocated to an of the Royal Navy which was laid down on 3 December 1943 and launched at Devonport Dockyard on 14 March 1945 during the Second World War....
    
    
  • Achates (P433)
    HMS Achates (P433)
    HMS Achates was a planned Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, launched in 1945 but not completed, later scrapped....
    
    
• HMS Meteorite
  HMS Meteorite
  HMS Meteorite was an experimental U-boat developed in Germany, scuttled at the end of World War II, subsequently raised and commissioned into the Royal Navy. The submarine was originally commissioned into the Kriegsmarine in March 1945 as U-1407...
  
   - captured experimental U-boat
• Explorer class
  Explorer class submarine
  The two Explorer class submarines were experimental vessels built for the Royal Navy to test a propulsion system based on the use of highly concentrated Hydrogen peroxide and diesel fuel to achieve high underwater endurance and speeds....
  
  
• Stickleback class
  Stickleback class submarine
  The Stickleback class submarines were midget submarines of the Royal Navy initially ordered as improved versions of the older XE class submarines...
  
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  Midget submarine
  A midget submarine is any submarine under 150 tons, typically operated by a crew of one or two but sometimes up to 6 or 8, with little or no on-board living accommodation...
  
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  • X51 Stickleback
  • X52 Shrimp
  • X53 Sprat
  • X54 Minnow

late 1950s to late 1980s

• Porpoise class
  British Porpoise class submarine
  The Porpoise class was an eight-boat class of diesel-electric submarines operated by the Royal Navy. This class was originally designated patrol submarines, then attack. They were the first conventional British submarines to be built after the end of World War II...
  
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  • Porpoise
    HMS Porpoise (S01)
    HMS Porpoise was a Porpoise-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 25 April 1956, commissioned on 17 April 1958, and was sunk as a target in 1985....
    
    , commissioned/decommissioned: 1958/1982
  • Narwhal
    HMS Narwhal (S03)
    HMS Narwhal was a Porpoise class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 25 October 1957. She was scuttled on 3 August 1985 as a target....
    
    , c/d: 1959/1977
  • Finwhale
    HMS Finwhale (S05)
    HMS Finwhale was a Porpoise class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was launched on the 21st July 1959. While in the Far East she was fitted with an oerlikon deck gun....
    
    , c/d: 1960/1987 (harbour service from 1979)
  • Cachalot
    HMS Cachalot (S06)
    HMS Cachalot was a Porpoise-class submarine. Her keel was laid down on 1 August 1955 by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Greenock. She was launched on 11 December 1957, and commissioned on 1 September 1959....
    
    , c/d: 1959/1979
  • Sealion
    HMS Sealion (S07)
    HMS Sealion was a Porpoise-class submarine. Her keel was laid down on 5 June 1958 by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead. She was launched on 31 December 1959, and commissioned on 25 July 1961....
    
    , c/d: 1961/1987
  • Walrus
    HMS Walrus (S08)
    HMS Walrus was a Porpoise class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 22 September 1959, and commissioned on 10 February 1961...
    
    , c/d: 1961/1986
  • Grampus
    HMS Grampus (S04)
    HMS Grampus was a Porpoise-class submarine. Her keel was laid down in 1955 by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead. She was commissioned in 1958....
    
    , c/d: 1958/1978
  • Rorqual
    HMS Rorqual (S02)
    HMS Rorqual was a Porpoise-class submarine launched in 1956. She was built by the Vickers shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. The boat was named for both the Rorqual whale and the earlier Second World War-era submarine of the same name.In 1958, Rorqual experienced a fire. In 1963,...
    
    , c/d: 1958/1976
• Oberon class
  Oberon class submarine
  The Oberon class was a 27-boat class of British-built diesel-electric submarines based on the successful British Porpoise-class submarine....
  
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  • Oberon
    HMS Oberon (S09)
    HMS Oberon was the first of the Oberon-class submarines. She was built by HM Dockyard, Chatham and was laid down on 28 November 1957. She was commissioned on 24 February 1961....
    
    , commissioned/decommissioned: 1961/1986
  • Onslaught
    HMS Onslaught (S14)
    HMS Onslaught was a British Oberon-class submarine built by HM Dockyard, Chatham, for the Royal Navy.She was laid down on the 8 April 1959 and was commissioned on the 14 September 1962. HMS Onslaught was paid off in 1990.-References:...
    
    , c/d: 1962/1990
  • Orpheus
    HMS Orpheus (S11)
    HMS Orpheus was an Oberon class submarine of the Royal Navy built at Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness.She was launched on 17 November 1959. She was in harbour service in 1987 and was broken up in 1994....
    
    , c/d: 1960/1990 (harbour service from 1987)
  • Odin
    HMS Odin (S10)
    HMS Odin was a British Oberon-class submarine. She was built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead. She was laid down on 27 April 1959, launched 4 November 1960 and was commissioned on the 3 May 1962.Odin was decommissioned on 18 October 1990...
    
    , c/d: 1962/1990
  • Otter
    HMS Otter (S15)
    HMS Otter was an Oberon-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 15 May 1960 from Scotts Shipbuilding, Greenock and was laid down on 14 January 1960. She was commissioned on 20 August 1962. Otter was paid off on 31 July 1991....
    
    , c/d: 1962/1991
  • Olympus, c/d: 1961/1989
  • Oracle
    HMS Oracle (S16)
    HMS Oracle was an Oberon-class submarine of the Royal Navy.She was built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead and was laid down on 26 April 1960. She was launched on 26 September 1961 and commissioned on 14 February 1963. HMS Oracle was paid off on 18 September 1993....
    
    , c/d: 1963/1993
  • Ocelot
    HMS Ocelot (S17)
    HMS Ocelot was an Oberon-class diesel-electric submarine laid down by HM Dockyard at Chatham in Kent on 17 November 1960, launched on 5 May 1962 and commissioned on 31 January 1964. She joined the 3rd Flotilla based at HMNB Clyde, in Faslane...
    
    , c/d: 1964/1991
  • Otus
    HMS Otus (S18)
    HMS Otus was a Royal Navy Oberon-class submarine. Built in 1962 at Scotts Yard in Greenock, Scotland, the sub's trials were conducted in Scottish waters, mainly Loch Long and Loch Fyne...
    
    , c/d: 1963/1991
  • Opossum
    HMS Opossum (S19)
    HMS Opossum was an Oberon-class submarine in service with the Royal Navy from 1964 to 1993.- Service :Opossum was the eleventh Oberon-class boat commissioned by the Royal Navy. She was built by Cammell Laird shipbuilder at Birkenhead and launched on 23 May 1963...
    
    , c/d: 1964/1993
  • Opportune
    HMS Opportune (S20)
    HMS Opportune was an Oberon class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was built in 1964 and sold in 1992.For several years the vessel resided at Pounds scrapyard in Portsmouth...
    
    , c/d: 1964/1993
  • Osiris, c/d: 1964/1989
  • Onyx
    HMS Onyx (S21)
    HMS Onyx was an Oberon class submarine of the Royal Navy. Originally ordered for the Royal Canadian Navy, Onyx was transferred to the Royal Navy whilst under construction at Cammell Laird shipbuilders in Birkenhead, England...
    
    , c/d: 1967/1991
• Dreadnought
  HMS Dreadnought (S101)
  The seventh HMS Dreadnought was the United Kingdom's first nuclear-powered submarine, built by Vickers Armstrongs at Barrow-in-Furness. Launched by Queen Elizabeth II on Trafalgar Day 1960 and commissioned into service with the Royal Navy in April 1963, she continued in service until 1980...
  
   (Nuclear powered hunter-killer), commissioned/decommissioned: 1963/1980
• Valiant class
  Valiant class submarine
  The Valiant class were a class of nuclear-powered fleet submarines in service with the Royal Navy from the mid 1960s until 1994. They were the first fully British nuclear fleet submarine; the earlier used an American nuclear reactor...
  
   (Nuclear powered hunter-killer)
  • Valiant
    HMS Valiant (S102)
    The sixth, and most recent HMS Valiant was the second of Britain's nuclear-powered submarines, and the first of the two-unit Valiant class...
    
    , commissioned/decommissioned: 1966/1994
  • Warspite
    HMS Warspite (S103)
    The latest HMS Warspite was the third of Britain's nuclear-powered submarines, and the second of the Valiant class. She was launched on 25 September 1965 by Mary Wilson, the wife of the then British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and entered service 18 April 1967.Warspite underwent a two year...
    
    , c/d: 1967/1991
• Resolution class
  Resolution class submarine
  The Resolution-class submarine armed with the Polaris missile was the United Kingdom's primary nuclear deterrent from the late 1960s to 1994, when they were replaced by the Vanguard-class submarine carrying the Trident II.-Background:...
  
   (Nuclear powered ballistic missile)
  • Resolution, commissioned/decommissioned: 1967/1994
  • Repulse
    HMS Repulse (S23)
    HMS Repulse was a Resolution-class ballistic missile submarine of the Royal Navy.Launched on 4 November 1967, she was the last of her class remaining in service with the navy, decommissioning in 1996....
    
    , c/d: 1967/1996
  • Renown
    HMS Renown (S26)
    HMS Renown was the third of the Royal Navy's Resolution-class ballistic missile submarines.Built by Cammell Laird and launched on 25 February 1967, she was decommissioned in 1996.- External links :*...
    
    , c/d: 1967/1996
  • Revenge
    HMS Revenge (S27)
    HMS Revenge was the fourth of the Royal Navy's Resolution-class ballistic missile submarines.Built by Cammell Laird and launched on 15 March 1968, she was marked for disposal in 1992...
    
    , c/d: 1969/1992
• Churchill class
  Churchill class submarine
  The three Improved Valiant class submarines, sometimes known as the Churchill class, were nuclear powered fleet submarines which served with the Royal Navy from the 1970s until the early 1990s...
  
   (Nuclear powered hunter-killer)
  • Churchill
    HMS Churchill (S46)
    HMS Churchill was the first of three nuclear fleet submarines that served with the British Royal Navy.-Propulsion:Churchill was chosen to trial the first full-size submarine pump jet propulsion. Trials of a high-speed unit were followed by further trials with a low-speed unit, and these were...
    
    , commissioned/decommissioned: 1970/1991
  • Conqueror
    HMS Conqueror (S48)
    HMS Conqueror was a nuclear-powered fleet submarine that served in the Royal Navy from 1971 to 1990. She was built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead...
    
    , c/d: 1971/1990
  • Courageous
    HMS Courageous (S50)
    HMS Courageous was a nuclear fleet submarine in service with the Royal Navy from 1971.In 1982, the Courageous was sent with her sister ship, the , with the British task force to retake the Falkland Islands from the occupying Argentine forces. She returned home later in the year without damage.The...
    
    , c/d: 1971/1992
• Swiftsure class
  Swiftsure class submarine
  The Swiftsure class were a class of nuclear-powered fleet submarines in service with the Royal Navy from the early 1970s until 2010....
  
   (Nuclear powered hunter-killer)
  • Swiftsure
    HMS Swiftsure (S126)
    HMS Swiftsure was the lead ship of her class of nuclear fleet submarines. HMS Swiftsure was decommissioned in 1992 due to damage suffered to the pressure hull during trials....
    
    , commissioned/decommissioned: 1973/1992
  • Sovereign
    HMS Sovereign (S108)
    HMS Sovereign is a nuclear powered fleet submarine of the Swiftsure class.-Construction:Construction of the boat began on 18 September 1970; she was launched on 17 February 1973, and commissioned on 11 July 1974.-Operational history:...
    
    , c/d: 1974/2006
  • Superb
    HMS Superb (S109)
    HMS Superb was a nuclear powered fleet submarine of the Swiftsure class serving in the Royal Navy.She was built by Vickers Shipbuilding Groups, now a division of BAE Systems Submarine Solutions. HMS Superb was launched on 30 November 1974 at Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria and commissioned into the...
    
    , c/d: 1976/2008
  • Sceptre
    HMS Sceptre (S104)
    The fifth HMS Sceptre is a Swiftsure-class submarine built by Vickers in Barrow-in-Furness. She was launched in 1976, with a bottle of cider against her hull. She was commissioned on 14 February 1978, by Lady Audrey White. She was the tenth nuclear fleet submarine to enter service with the Royal...
    
    , c/d: 1978/2010
  • Spartan
    HMS Spartan (S105)
    HMS Spartan is a nuclear-powered fleet submarine of the Royal Navy's Swiftsure class. HMS Spartan was launched on April 7, 1978 by Lady Lygo, wife of Admiral Sir Raymond Lygo. The boat was built by Vickers-Armstrongs at Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, England...
    
    , c/d: 1979/2006
  • Splendid
    HMS Splendid (S106)
    HMS Splendid was a Royal Navy nuclear powered fleet submarine of the Swiftsure class. HMS Splendid was launched at Barrow on 5 October 1979, by Lady Ann Eberle, wife of Admiral Sir James Eberle, then Commander-in-Chief Fleet...
    
    , c/d: 1981/2004
• Trafalgar class
  Trafalgar class submarine
  The Trafalgar class is a class of nuclear-powered fleet submarines in service with the Royal Navy. They are a direct follow on from the Swiftsure class and were, until the introduction of the Astute class, the Royal Navy's most advanced nuclear fleet submarines.Seven boats were built and...
  
   (Nuclear powered hunter-killer)
  • Trafalgar
    HMS Trafalgar (S107)
    HMS Trafalgar is a decommissioned of the Royal Navy. Unlike the rest of the Trafalgar-class boats that followed, she was not launched with a pump jet propulsion system, but with a conventional 7-bladed propeller...
    
    , commissioned/decommissioned: 1983/2009
  • Turbulent
    HMS Turbulent (S87)
    HMS Turbulent is a of the Royal Navy built by Vickers Shipbuilding, Barrow-in-Furness.Turbulent is scheduled to be decommissioned at the end of 2011.-Operational history:...
    
    , commissioned: 1984
  • Tireless
    HMS Tireless (S88)
    HMS Tireless is a nuclear submarine of the Royal Navy and is the third vessel of her class. She is the second submarine of the Royal Navy to bear this name...
    
    , commissioned: 1985
  • Torbay
    HMS Torbay (S90)
    HMS Torbay is a nuclear submarine of the Royal Navy and was the fourth vessel of her class.Torbay was the first vessel to be fitted with the new command system SMCS-NG , which meant that she was also the first Royal Navy vessel to put to sea under the "command" of the Microsoft Windows operating...
    
    , commissioned: 1987
  • Trenchant
    HMS Trenchant (S91)
    HMS Trenchant is a nuclear-powered fleet submarine of the Royal Navy built by Vickers Shipbuilding, Barrow-in-Furness. Trenchant is currently in service and is based at HMNB Devonport.The submarine was ordered on 22 March 1983...
    
    , commissioned: 1989
  • Talent
    HMS Talent (S92)
    HMS Talent is the sixth of seven nuclear submarines of the Royal Navy, and was built at Barrow-in-Furness.Talent was launched by The Princess Royal in April 1988 and commissioned in May 1990. She was the last submarine to be launched down a slipway.. The boat is affiliated with Shrewsbury in...
    
    , commissioned: 1990
  • Triumph
    HMS Triumph (S93)
    HMS Triumph is a nuclear submarine of the Royal Navy and was the seventh and final boat of her class.Triumph was laid down in 1987 by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Limited and launched in February 1991 by Mrs. Ann Hamilton, wife of the then Armed Forces Minister Archie Hamilton...
    
    , commissioned: 1991

1990s to present

• Upholder class (Diesel-electric hunter-killer)
  • Upholder, commissioned/decommissioned: 1990/1994
  • Unseen, c/d: 1991/1994
  • Ursula, c/d: 1992/1994
  • Unicorn, c/d: 1993/1994

• Vanguard class
  Vanguard class submarine
  The Vanguard class are the Royal Navy's current nuclear ballistic missile submarines , each armed with up to 16 Trident II Submarine-launched ballistic missiles...
  
   (Nuclear powered ballistic missile)
  • Vanguard
    HMS Vanguard (S28)
    The eleventh HMS Vanguard of the Royal Navy is the lead boat of her class of Trident ballistic missile-armed submarines. The submarine is based at HMNB Clyde, Faslane....
    
    , commissioned: 1993
  • Victorious
    HMS Victorious (S29)
    HMS Victorious is the second of the Royal Navy. Victorious carries the Trident ballistic missile, the UK's nuclear deterrent....
    
    , commissioned: 1995
  • Vigilant
    HMS Vigilant (S30)
    HMS Vigilant is the third of the Royal Navy. Vigilant carries the Trident ballistic missile, the UK's nuclear deterrent.Vigilant was built at Barrow-in-Furness by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd , was launched in October 1995, and commissioned in November 1996.Peter Hennessy reporting for...
    
    , commissioned: 1996
  • Vengeance
    HMS Vengeance (S31)
    HMS Vengeance is the fourth and final of the Royal Navy. Vengeance carries the Trident ballistic missile, the UK's nuclear deterrent....
    
    , commissioned: 1999
• Astute class
  Astute class submarine
  The Astute-class is the latest class of nuclear-powered fleet submarines in service with the Royal Navy. The class sets a new standard for the Royal Navy in terms of weapons load, communication facilities and stealth. The boats are being constructed by BAE Systems Submarine Solutions at...
  
   (Nuclear powered hunter-killer)
  • Astute
    HMS Astute (S119)
    HMS Astute is a nuclear-powered submarine in the Royal Navy, the lead ship of her class. Builders BAE Systems describe her as "the largest and most able attack submarine that the Royal Navy has operated, with a performance to rival any in the world"....
    
    , commissioned: 2010
  • Ambush
    HMS Ambush (S120)
    HMS Ambush is an Astute-class nuclear fleet submarine of the Royal Navy, the second boat of her class, and is currently fitting out. Ambush was ordered from GEC's Marconi Marine on 17 March 1997...
    
    , launched: 6 January 2011
  • Artful
    HMS Artful (S121)
    HMS Artful is the third Astute-class nuclear-powered fleet submarine of the Royal Navy. Artful was ordered from GEC's Marconi Marine on 17 March 1997, and is under construction at Barrow in Furness....
    
    , construction began: 2005
  • Audacious
    HMS Audacious (S122)
    HMS Audacious is the fourth Astute-class nuclear-powered fleet submarine of the Royal Navy. Long lead items for its construction were ordered on 28 August 2006 although the actual order was not placed until 21 May 2007. It is currently under construction.Some aspects of A-04 will be different from...
    
    , construction began: 2009
  • Anson, construction began: 2011
  • Agamemnon, on order - long lead procurement activities underway
  • Ajax
    HMS Ajax (S125)
    HMS Ajax is a proposed Astute-class nuclear-powered fleet submarine of the Royal Navy and will be the seventh in her class.The confirmation for the seventh and final Astute-class boat was given in the Strategic Defence and Security Review of October 2010, although an order has yet to be...
    
    , order confirmed: 2010
• LR5
  LR5
  The LR5 is a manned submersible which was used by the British Royal Navy until 2009 when it was leased to support the Royal Australian Navy. It is designed for retrieving sailors from stranded submarines and is capable of rescuing 16 at a time....
  
   manned submersible (for rescue) - leased to the Royal Australian Navy in 2009
• SDV Mk8 Mod 1
  SEAL Delivery Vehicle
  The SEAL Delivery Vehicle or is a manned submersible and a type of Swimmer Delivery Vehicle used to deliver United States Navy SEALs and their equipment for special operations missions....
  
   - 3 mini-submarines used by the Special Boat Service
  Special Boat Service
  The Special Boat Service is the special forces unit of the British Royal Navy. Together with the Special Air Service, Special Reconnaissance Regiment and the Special Forces Support Group they form the United Kingdom Special Forces and come under joint control of the same Director Special...
  
   of the Royal Marines
  Royal Marines
  The Corps of Her Majesty's Royal Marines, commonly just referred to as the Royal Marines , are the marine corps and amphibious infantry of the United Kingdom and, along with the Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary, form the Naval Service...