Below is a detailed list of the ships and submarines built in Barrow-in-Furness, England by the Barrow Shipbuilding Company, Vickers-Armstrongs, Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, BAE Systems Marine, BAE Systems Submarine Solutions or any other descendant companies. Whilst it is extensive it is incomplete as there are some commercial vessels missing from the list.
373 merchant ships, 312 submarines and 148 naval surface ships have been built in Barrow (for navies and companies based in the likes of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, United Kingdom, United States). [1]
All but three nuclear submarines of the Royal Navy were built in Barrow, including the latest class of fleet submarines currently under construction by BAE Systems Submarine Solutions, utilising the massive Devonshire Dock Hall.
Some of the most notable vessels to be built in Barrow include the current Royal Navy flagship HMS Albion and the former flagships, HMS Bulwark and HMS Invincible. Abdül Hamid (the first submarine in the world to fire a live torpedo underwater), HMS Upholder (the most successful Royal Navy submarine of World War II) and the 103,000-ton oil tanker British Admiral (once the world's largest ship) were also built in Barrow, as were a number of ocean liners for Cunard Line, Inman Line, Orient Line and P&O.
As of 2024, the following naval ships and submarines built in Barrow are known to be active in service around the world.
Name | Class | Built For | Laid down | Launched | Fate | Image |
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Almirante Riveros | Almirante-class destroyer | Chilean Navy | 1956 | 1958 | 1998 (Decommissioned) | |
Almirante Saldanha | Training ship | Brazilian Navy | 1933 | 1933 | ||
Almirante Williams | Almirante-class destroyer | Chilean Navy | 1956 | 1958 | 1998 (Decommissioned) | |
ARA Buenos Aires (D-6) [2] | Buenos Aires-class destroyer | Argentine Navy | 1937 | 1937 | 1971 (Decommissioned) | |
ARA Corrientes [3] | Buenos Aires-class destroyer | Argentine Navy | 1937 | 1937 | 1941 (Destroyed) | |
ARA Entre Rios [4] | Buenos Aires-class destroyer | Argentine Navy | 1936 | 1937 | 1973 (Decommissioned) | |
ARA Hércules | Type 42 destroyer | Argentine Navy | 1971 | 1976 | In active service | |
ARA La Argentina | Light cruiser | Argentine Navy | 1936 | 1937 | 1974 (Decommissioned) | |
São Paulo | Minas Geraes-class battleship | Brazilian Navy | 1907 | 1909 | 1951 (Destroyed) | |
Ying Swei | Chao Ho-class cruiser | Republic of China Navy | 1910 | 1911 | 1937 (Destroyed) | |
Araucano | Submarine tender | Chilean Navy | 1929 | 1959 (Decommissioned) | ||
ARV Aragua | Nueva Esparta-class destroyer | Bolivarian Navy of Venezuela | 1953 | 1955 | 1975 (Decommissioned) | |
ARV Nueva Esparta [5] | Nueva Esparta-class destroyer | Bolivarian Navy of Venezuela | 1951 | 1952 | 1978 (Decommissioned) | |
ARV Zulia [6] | Nueva Esparta-class destroyer | Bolivarian Navy of Venezuela | 1951 | 1953 | 1983 (Decommissioned) | |
TCG Gayret / HMS Ithuriel | I-class destroyer | Turkish Navy / Royal Navy | 1939 | 1940 | 1942 (Destroyed) | |
HMCS Canada | Patrol ship | Royal Canadian Navy | 1904 | 1926 (Destroyed) | ||
HMS Adventure | Minelaying cruiser | Royal Navy | 1922 | 1924 | 1947 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Ajax | Leander-class light cruiser | Royal Navy | 1933 | 1934 | 1948 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Albion | Albion-class landing platform dock | Royal Navy | 1998 | 2001 | In active service | |
HMS Arrow | A-class destroyer | Royal Navy | 1928 | 1929 | 1943 (Destroyed) | |
HMS Bulwark | Albion-class landing platform dock | Royal Navy | 2000 | 2001 | In active service | |
HMS Calcutta | C-class light cruiser | Royal Navy | 1917 | 1918 | 1941 (Destroyed) | |
HMS Cardiff | Type 42 destroyer | Royal Navy | 1972 | 1974 | 2008 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Cassandra | C-class light cruiser | Royal Navy | 1916 | 1916 | 1918 (Destroyed) | |
HMS Colossus / Arromanches | Colossus-class aircraft carrier | Royal Navy / French Navy | 1943 | 1978 (Decommissioned) | ||
HMS Crescent / HMCS Fraser [7] | C-class destroyer | Royal Navy / Royal Canadian Navy | 1930 | 1931 | 1940 (Destroyed) | |
HMS Cumberland | County-class cruiser | Royal Navy | 1924 | 1926 | 1959 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Curlew | C-class light cruiser | Royal Navy | 1916 | 1917 | 1940 (Destroyed) | |
HMS Cygnet / HMCS St. Laurent [8] | C-class destroyer | Royal Navy / Royal Canadian Navy | 1930 | 1931 | 1947 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Defender [9] | D-class destroyer | Royal Navy | 1931 | 1932 | 1941 (Destroyed) | |
HMS Diamond | D-class destroyer | Royal Navy | 1931 | 1932 | 1941 (Destroyed) | |
HMS Doris [10] | Eclipse-class cruiser | Royal Navy | 1894 | 1896 | 1919 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Eastbourne | Whitby-class frigate | Royal Navy | 1954 | 1955 | 1985 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Emperor of India | Iron Duke-class battleship | Royal Navy | 1912 | 1913 | 1932 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Erne | Black Swan-class sloop | Royal Navy | 1938 | 1939 | 1965 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Fame / Generalisimo / Sanchez [11] | F-class destroyer | Royal Navy / Dominican Navy | 1933 | 1934 | 1968 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Greyhound | G-class destroyer | Royal Navy | 1934 | 1935 | 1941 (Destroyed) | |
HMS Griffin / HMCS Ottawa | G-class destroyer | Royal Navy / Royal Canadian Navy | 1934 | 1935 | 1946 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Hermes / INS Viraat | Centaur-class aircraft carrier | Royal Navy / Indian Navy | 1944 | 1953 | In active service | |
HMS Illustrious | Illustrious-class aircraft carrier | Royal Navy | 1937 | 1939 | 1956 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Indomitable | Illustrious-class aircraft carrier | Royal Navy | 1937 | 1940 | 1955 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Invincible | Invincible-class aircraft carrier} | Royal Navy | 1973 | 1977 | 2011 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Jamaica | Crown Colony-class cruiser | Royal Navy | 1939 | 1940 | 1960 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Jervis Bay | Ocean liner turned Armed merchant cruiser | Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line / Royal Navy | 1922 | 1940 (Destroyed) | ||
HMS Juno [12] | Eclipse-class cruiser | Royal Navy | 1894 | 1895 | 1920 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Keith | B-class destroyer | Royal Navy | 1929 | 1930 | 1940 (Destroyed) | |
HMS King Alfred | Drake-class cruiser | Royal Navy | 1901 | 1920 (Decommissioned) | ||
HMS Liverpool | Bristol-class light cruiser | Royal Navy | 1909 | 1909 | 1921 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Majestic / HMAS Melbourne | Majestic-class aircraft carrier | Royal Navy / Royal Australian Navy | 1943 | 1945 | 1985 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Manchester | Type 42 destroyer | Royal Navy | 1978 | 1980 | 2011 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Medway | Submarine depot ship | Royal Navy | 1928 | 1942 (Destroyed) | ||
HMS Mohawk | Tribal-class frigate | Royal Navy | 1960 | 1962 | 1980 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Niobe / HMCS Niobe | Diadem-class cruiser | Royal Navy / Royal Canadian Navy | 1897 | 1922 (Decommissioned) | ||
HMS Ocean / Atlântico | Helicopter Landing Platform/ Amphibious assault ship | Royal Navy / Brazilian Navy | 1994 | 1995 | In active service | |
HMS Pioneer | Colossus-class aircraft carrier | Royal Navy | 1942 | 1944 | 1954 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Powerful | Powerful-class cruiser | Royal Navy | 1894 | 1895 | 1929 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Princess Royal | Battlecruiser | Royal Navy | 1910 | 1911 | 1922 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Resource [13] | Fleet Repair ship | Royal Navy | 1928 | |||
HMS Revenge | Revenge-class battleship | Royal Navy | 1913 | 1915 | 1948 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Scarborough | Whitby-class frigate | Royal Navy | 1953 | 1955 | 1977 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Sheffield | Type 42 destroyer | Royal Navy | 1970 | 1971 | 1982 (Destroyed) | |
HMS Spartan | Bellona-class cruiser | Royal Navy | 1939 | 1942 | 1944 (Destroyed) | |
HMS Urchin | U-class destroyer | Royal Navy | 1942 | 1943 | ||
HMS Urania | U-class destroyer | Royal Navy | 1942 | 1943 | ||
HMS Vanguard | St. Vincent-class battleship | Royal Navy | 1908 | 1909 | 1917 (Destroyed) | |
HMS Vixen / HMCS Sioux | V-class destroyer | Royal Navy / Royal Canadian Navy | 1942 | 1943 | 1963 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Wizard | W-class destroyer | Royal Navy | 1942 | 1943 | 1967 (Decommissioned) | |
HMS Wrangler / SAS Vyrstaat | W-class destroyer | Royal Navy / South African Navy | 1942 | 1943 | 1976 (Decommissioned) | |
Iranian frigate Alborz | Alvand-class frigate | Islamic Republic of Iran Navy | 1968 | 1969 | In active service | |
Iranian frigate Sabalan | Alvand-class frigate | Islamic Republic of Iran Navy | 1969 | In active service | ||
Katori | Pre-dreadnought battleship | Imperial Japanese Navy | 1904 | 1905 | 1924 (Decommissioned) | |
Kongō | Kongō-class battlecruiser | Imperial Japanese Navy | 1911 | 1912 | 1944 (Destroyed) | |
Mikasa | Pre-dreadnought battleship | Imperial Japanese Navy | 1898 | 1900 | 1923 (Decommissioned and preserved) | |
Japura /HMS Hurricane [14] | H-class destroyer | Brazilian Navy Brazilian Navy / Royal Navy | 1938 | 1939 | 1943 (Destroyed) | |
Jurua / HMS Harvester / Handy [15] | H-class destroyer | Brazilian Navy / Royal Navy | 1938 | 1939 | 1943 (Destroyed) | |
Libertad / HMS Triumph | Swiftsure-class battleship | Chilean Navy / Royal Navy | 1903 | 1915 (Destroyed) | ||
Maipo | Oil tanker | Chilean Navy | 1929 | 1930 | 1964 (Decommissioned) | |
Rancagua | Oil tanker | Chilean Navy | 1929 | 1930 | 1964 (Decommissioned) | |
Reşadiye / HMS Erin | Battleship | Ottoman Empire / Royal Navy | 1911 | 1913 | 1923 (Decommissioned) | |
RFA Wave Knight | Wave-class tanker | Royal Navy | 1998 | 2000 | In active service | |
Russian cruiser Rurik | Armoured cruiser | Imperial Russian Navy | 1905 | 1906 | 1930 (Decommissioned) | |
TCG Muavenet / HMS Inconstant | I-class destroyer | Turkish Navy / Royal Navy | 1939 | 1941 | 1960 (Decommissioned) | |
TS Dufferin [16] | Troopship | Indian Government | 1904 |
See here for every U-class submarine built in Barrow-in-Furness for the British, French, Netherlands, Polish and Soviet Navies.
Name | Class | Built For | Laid down | Launched | Fate | Image | |
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Brazilian submarine Humaitá | Oberon class | Brazilian Navy | 3 November 1970 | 15 October 1971 | Decommissioned in 1996 | ||
Brazilian submarine Riachuelo | Oberon class | Brazilian Navy | 6 September 1975 | Museum ship in Rio de Janeiro since 1997 | |||
Brazilian submarine Tonelero | Oberon class | Brazilian Navy | 18 November 1971 | 22 November 1972 | Decommissioned in 1996 | ||
HMS A1 | A class | Royal Navy | 19 February 1902 | 9 July 1902 | Lost 1911. Wreck rediscovered 1989 | ||
HMS A10 | A class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS A11 | A class | Royal Navy | 8 March 1905 | Scrapped in May 1920 | |||
HMS A12 | A class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS A13 | A class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS A2 | A class | Royal Navy | 15 April 1903 | Scrapped in January 1920 | |||
HMS A3 | A class | Royal Navy | 13 July 1904 | 12 May 1912 sunk as gunnery target | |||
HMS A4 | A class | Royal Navy | 9 June 1903 | 17 July 1904 | Sold for scrapping 16 January 1920 | ||
HMS A5 | A class | Royal Navy | 19 February 1902 | 11 February 1905 | Scrapped in 1920 at Portsmouth Dockyard | ||
HMS A6 | A class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS A7 | A class | Royal Navy | 19 February 1903 | Sunk in Whitsand Bay on 16 January 1914 | |||
HMS A8 | A class | Royal Navy | 23 January 1905 | Scrapped in 1920 | |||
HMS A9 | A class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMAS AE1 | E class | Royal Australian Navy | 14 November 1911 | 22 May 1913 | Lost at Sea 14 September 1914 | ||
HMAS AE2 | E class | Royal Australian Navy | 10 February 1912 | 18 June 1913 | Scuttled 29 April 1915 | ||
HMS Agamemnon (S123) | Astute class | Royal Navy | 18 July 2013 | 3 October 2024 | Pre-sea trials | ||
HMS Agincourt (S125) | Astute class | Royal Navy | 14 May 2018 | Under construction | |||
HMS Alcide | Amphion class | Royal Navy | 2 January 1945 | 12 April 1945 | Sold to be broken up for scrap in 1974 | ||
HMS Alderney | Amphion class | Royal Navy | 6 February 1945 | 25 June 1945 | Sold to be broken up for scrap in 1972 | ||
HMS Alliance | Amphion class | Royal Navy | 13 March 1945 | 28 July 1945 | Museum ship/memorial since 1981 at Royal Navy Submarine Museum | ||
HMS Ambush | Amphion class | Royal Navy | 17 May 1945 | 24 September 1945 | Sold to be broken up for scrap in 1971 | ||
HMS Ambush (S120) | Astute class | Royal Navy | 22 October 2003 | 6 January 2011 | In active Royal Navy service | ||
HMS Amphion | Amphion class | Royal Navy | 31 August 1944 | 27 March 1945 | Sold to be broken up for scrap in 1971 | ||
HMS Anchorite | Amphion class | Royal Navy | 22 January 1946 | 18 November 1947 | Sold to be broken up for scrap in 1970 | ||
HMS Andrew (P423) | Amphion class | Royal Navy | 13 August 1945 | 6 April 1946 | Sold to be broken up for scrap in 1977 | ||
HMS Anson (S123) | Astute class | Royal Navy | 13 October 2011 | 20 April 2021 | In active Royal Navy service | ||
HMS Artful (S121) | Astute class | Royal Navy | 11 March 2005 | 17 May 2014 | In active Royal Navy service | ||
HMS Astute (P447) | Amphion class | Royal Navy | 1944 | Scrapped in 1970 | |||
HMS Astute (S119) | Astute class | Royal Navy | 31 January 2001 | 8 June 2007 | In active Royal Navy service | ||
HMS Auriga (P419) | Amphion class | Royal Navy | 7 June 1944 | 29 March 1945 | Sold to be broken up for scrap in 1974 | ||
HMS Aurochs (P426) | Amphion class | Royal Navy | 21 June 1944 | 28 July 1945 | Sold to be broken up for scrap in 1967 | ||
HMS Audacious (S122) | Astute class | Royal Navy | 24 March 2009 | 28 April 2017 | In active Royal Navy service | ||
HMS B1 | B class | Royal Navy | 25 October 1904 | Relegated to training duties after World War I. She was sold for scrap in May 1921 | |||
HMS B2 | B class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS B3 | B class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS B4 | B class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS B5 | B class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS B6 | B class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS B7 | B class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS B8 | B class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS B9 | B class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS B10 | B class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS B11 | B class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C1 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C2 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C3 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C4 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C5 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C6 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C7 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C8 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C9 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C10 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C11 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C12 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C13 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C14 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C15 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C16 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C21 | C class | Royal Navy | 4 February 1908 | Sold 5 December 1921 | |||
HMS C22 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C23 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C24 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C25 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C26 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C27 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C28 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C29 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C30 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C31 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C32 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C35 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C36 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C37 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
HMS C38 | C class | Royal Navy | |||||
Captain Thompson [17] | Chilean Navy | 15 January 1929 | |||||
HMCS Chicoutimi (SSK 879) | Upholder/Victoria class | Royal Navy / Royal Canadian Navy | November 1983 | 2 December 1986 | in active service for Canada (Dry-docked) | ||
Delfim [18] | Portuguese Navy | 1933 | 1 May 1934 | ||||
HMS Dreadnought | Nuclear-powered | Royal Navy | 12 June 1959 | 21 October 1960 | As of 2004, is laid up at Rosyth | ||
HMS Dreadnought | Dreadnought class | Royal Navy | 6 October 2016 | Under Construction | |||
HMS E4 | E class | Royal Navy | 16 May 1911 | 5 February 1912 | Sold on 21 February 1922 | ||
Espardarte [19] | Portuguese Navy | 1933 | 30 May 1934 | ||||
HMS Excalibur | Explorer class | Royal Navy | 25 February 1955 | Scrapped in March 1968 | |||
HMS Explorer | Explorer class | Royal Navy | 5 March 1954 | Scrapped in March 1962 | |||
INS Gal | Gal class | Israeli Navy | 2 December 1975 | Preserved as a museum ship since 2007 | |||
Golfino [20] | Portuguese Navy | 1933 | 30 May 1934 | ||||
Holland 4 | Holland class | Royal Navy | 1902 | Foundered on 3 September 1912. She was salvaged and was used as a gunnery target in 1914 | |||
HMS K26 | K class | Royal Navy | 26 August 1919 | Sold for scrapping March 1931 to Mamo Brothers, Malta | |||
HMS K3 | K class | Royal Navy | 21 May 1915 | 20 May 1916 | sold for scrapping in 1921 | ||
HMS K4 | K class | Royal Navy | 28 June 1915 | K4 was sunk on 31 January 1918 during exercises with the 13th submarine flotilla | |||
Kalev [21] | Estonian Navy | 27 July 1935 | 7 July 1936 | Missing after 29 October 1941 | |||
HMS L1 | L class | Royal Navy | 18 May 1916 | 1917 | Sold in March 1930 and scrapped in Newport | ||
HMS L2 | L class | Royal Navy | 1917 | Scrapped in 1930 | |||
HMS L3 | L class | Royal Navy | 1917 | Scrapped in 1931 | |||
HMS L4 | L class | Royal Navy | 1917 | Scrapped in 1932 | |||
HMS L11 | L class | Royal Navy | 1918 | Broken up in 1932 | |||
HMS L12 | L class | Royal Navy | 1918 | Broken up in 1932 | |||
HMS L14 | L class | Royal Navy | 1918 | Broken up in 1934 | |||
HMS L17 | L class | Royal Navy | 1918 | Broken up in 1934 | |||
HMS L18 | L class | Royal Navy | 1918 | Broken up in 1936 | |||
HMS L19 | L class | Royal Navy | 1919 | Broken up in 1937 | |||
HMS L20 | L class | Royal Navy | 1918 | Broken up in 1935 | |||
HMS L21 | L class | Royal Navy | 1919 | Broken up in 1939 | |||
HMS L22 | L class | Royal Navy | 1919 | Broken up in 1935 | |||
HMS L24 | L class | Royal Navy | 1919 | Sunk in collision with HMS Resolution, 14 January 1924 | |||
HMS L25 | L class | Royal Navy | 1919 | Broken Up in 1935 | |||
Kalev | Kalev class | Estonian Navy | 1 May 1935 | 7 July 1936 | Commissioned in the Soviet Navy in 1940, sunk in 1941 | ||
Lembit | Kalev class | Estonian Navy | 27 July 1935 | 7 July 1936 | Commissioned in the Soviet Navy in 1940, museum ship since 1979 in Tallinn, Estonia | ||
HMS M1 | M class | Royal Navy | 1916 | 9 July 1917 | Sunk during exercise off the Devon coast after colliding with Swedish Collier SS Vidar – All crew members were lost. | ||
HMS M2 | M class | Royal Navy | 1916 | 15 April 1919 | Lost off Chesil Beach on 26 January 1933, now a popular scuba diving location. | ||
HMS Narwhal (N45) | Grampus class | Royal Navy | 29 August 1935 | Sunk 23 July 1940 | |||
HMS Narwhal [22] | Porpoise class | Royal Navy | 25 October 1957 | Sunk as a target on 3 August 1983 | |||
ORP Sokół / HMS Urchin (N97) | U class | Polish Navy / Royal Navy | 9 December 1939 | 30 September 1940 | Scrapped in 1949 | ||
TCG Burak Reis | Oruç Reis class | Turkish Navy | 19 October 1940 | Scrapped in 1957 | |||
TCG Murat Reis | Oruç Reis class | Turkish Navy | 20 July 1940 | Scrapped in 1957 | |||
TCG Oruç Reis | Oruç Reis class | Turkish Navy | 19 July 1940 | Scrapped in 1957 | |||
TCG Uluc Ali Reis | Oruç Reis class | Turkish Navy | 1 November 1940 | Sunk by U-boat U-123 near Sierra Leone | |||
ORP Dzik | U class | Polish Navy | 30 December 1941 | 11 November 1942 | Scrapped in 1958 | ||
ORP Dzik / HDMS U-1 / HDMS Springeren | U class | Polish Navy / Royal Danish Navy / Royal Navy | 30 December 1941 | 11 November 1942 | Scrapped in 1958 | ||
HMS Olympus (S12) | Oberon class | Royal Navy | 4 March 1960 | 14 June 1961 | Scrapped in 2011 | ||
HMS Orpheus (S11) | Oberon class | Royal Navy | 8 April 1959 | 17 November 1959 | Scrapped in 1994 | ||
HMS Osiris (S13) | Oberon class | Royal Navy | 1962 | 1964 | Scrapped in 1991 | ||
HMS Otway | Odin class | Royal Australian Navy | March 1925 | 7 September 1926 | Scrapped in 1945 | ||
HMS Oxley | Odin class | Royal Australian Navy / Royal Navy | 29 June 1926 | Torpedoed in a 'friendly fire' situation by another Barrow-built submarine – HMS Triton (N15) – near Norway on 10 September 1939 with only 3 survivors | |||
HMS P32 (1940) | U class | Royal Navy | 30 April 1940 | 15 December 1940 | Mined on 18 August 1941 near Tripoli with the loss of 8 crew | ||
HMS P33 (1941) | U class | Royal Navy | 18 June 1940 | 28 January 1941 | Sunk, probably during depth charge attack 18 August 1941 | ||
HMS P48 (1942) | U class | Royal Navy | 21 August 1941 | 15 April 1942 | Depth charged in the Gulf of Tunis, 25 December 1942 | ||
HMS Pandora (N42) [23] | Parthian class | Royal Navy | 1929 | Sunk at Valletta, Malta, by Italian aircraft on 1 April 1942 during World War I | |||
HMS Perseus (N36) | Parthian class | Royal Navy | 2 July 1928 | 22 May 1929 | Struck an Italian mine on 6 December 1941 near Cephalonia with the loss of 60 crew | ||
HMS Porpoise (S01) [24] | Porpoise class | Royal Navy | 1956 | 25 April 1956 | Sunk as a target in 1985 | ||
HMS Poseidon (1929) | Parthian class | Royal Navy | 22 August 1929 | Collided with the Chinese merchant steamer SS Yula on 9 June 1931 with the loss of 22 crew | |||
HMS Proteus (N29) [25] | Parthian class | Royal Navy | 23 July 1929 | Scrapped in March 1946 at Troon | |||
HMS R7 | R class | Royal Navy | 1 November 1917 | 14 May 1918 | Sold on 21 February 1923 to E Suren | ||
HMS R8 | R class | Royal Navy | 1 November 1917 | 28 June 1918 | Sold on 21 February 1923 to E Suren | ||
Rahav | Gal class | Israeli Navy Israeli Navy | Late 1970s | Decommissioned in early 2000s | |||
HMS Repulse (S23) | Resolution class | Royal Navy | 4 November 1967 | Decommissioned in 1996 | |||
HMS Resolution (S22) | Resolution class | Royal Navy | 26 February 1964 | 15 September 1966 | Decommissioned in October 1994 | ||
HMS Rorqual (S02) | Porpoise class | Royal Navy | 5 December 1956 | Broken up in 1977 | |||
HMS Sceptre (S104) | Swiftsure class | Royal Navy | 19 February 1974 | 20 November 1976 | Decommissioned in 2010 | ||
HMS Seraph (P219) | S class | Royal Navy | 16 August 1940 | 25 October 1941 | Scrapped in December 1965, parts from her conning tower were preserved as a memorial at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. The only place where the Royal Navy ensign is allowed to fly in the United States | ||
HMS Sovereign (S108) | Swiftsure class | Royal Navy | 18 September 1970 | 17 February 1973 | Paid off | ||
HMS Spartan (S105) | Swiftsure class | Royal Navy | 26 April 1976 | 7 May 1978 | Paid off | ||
HMS Splendid (S106) | Swiftsure class | Royal Navy | 5 October 1979 | Decommissioned in 2004 | |||
HMS Superb (S109) | Swiftsure class | Royal Navy | 16 March 1972 | 30 November 1974 | Decommissioned | ||
HMS Swiftsure (S126) | Swiftsure class | Royal Navy | 7 September 1971 | Decommissioned in 1992 | |||
HMS Talent (S92) | Trafalgar class | Royal Navy | 13 May 1986 | 15 April 1988 | In active service as of 2010 | ||
Tanin | Gal class | Israeli Navy | Late 1970s | Decommissioned in early 2000s | |||
HMS Tapir (P335) / HNLMS Zeehond | T class | Royal Navy / Royal Netherlands Navy | 29 March 1943 | 21 August 1944 | Scrapped at Faslane in December 1966 | ||
HMS Tireless (S88) | Trafalgar class | Royal Navy | 6 June 1981 | 17 March 1984 | Active in service as of 2010 | ||
HMS Torbay (S90) | Trafalgar class | Royal Navy | 3 December 1982 | 8 March 1985 | Active in service as of 2010 | ||
HMS Trafalgar (S107) | Trafalgar class | Royal Navy | 15 April 1979 | 1 July 1981 | Decommissioned in 2009 | ||
HMS Trenchant (S91) | Trafalgar class | Royal Navy | 28 October 1985 | 3 November 1986 | Active in service as of 2010 | ||
HMS Triton (N15) | T class | Royal Navy | 28 August 1936 | 5 October 1937 | sunk, either by Italian torpedo boats or mines in the Strait of Otranto – involved in the HMS Oxley incident | ||
HMS Triumph (N18) | T class | Royal Navy | 1938 | Hit a mine off the coast of Greece in early January 1942 with the loss of all 59 crew | |||
HMS Triumph (S93) | Trafalgar class | Royal Navy | 2 February 1987 | 16 February 1991 | Active in service as of 2010 | ||
HMS Trump (P333) | T class | Royal Navy | 31 December 1942 | 25 March 1944 | Scrapped at Newport, Wales in 1971 | ||
HMS Turbulent (S87) | Trafalgar class | Royal Navy | 8 May 1980 | 1 December 1982 | Active in service as of 2010 | ||
HMS Umbra (P35) | U class | Royal Navy | 19 July 1940 | 15 March 1941 | Sold for scrap in 1946, broken up at Blyth | ||
HMS Umpire (N82) | U class | Royal Navy | 1 January 1940 | 30 December 1940 | Sunk in collision on 19 July 1941 with the loss of 22 men | ||
HMS Unbeaten (N93) | U class | Royal Navy | 22 November 1939 | 9 July 1940 | Sunk on 11 November 1942 in friendly-fire incident | ||
HMS Undaunted (N55) | U class | Royal Navy | 2 December 1939 | 20 August 1940 | Sunk 11 May 1941 | ||
HMS Undine (N48) | U class | Royal Navy | 19 February 1937 | 5 October 1937 | Sunk on 7 January 1940 | ||
HMS Union (N56) | U class | Royal Navy | 9 December 1939 | 1 October 1940 | Sunk on 20 July 1941 | ||
HMS Unique (N95) | U class | Royal Navy | 30 October 1939 | 6 June 1940 | Sunk around 10 October 1942 | ||
HMS Unity (N66) | U class | Royal Navy | 19 February 1937 | 16 February 1938 | Sunk on 29 April 1940 | ||
HMS Upholder (P37) | U class | Royal Navy | 30 October 1939 | 8 July 1940 | Sunk on or about 14 April 1942 | ||
HMS Upholder (S40) | Type 2400 | Royal Navy | November 1983 | 2 December 1986 | Commissioned Royal Navy 7 December 1990. Decommissioned 29 April 1994. Sold to Canadian Navy in 1998 and handed over in 2004. Currently commissioned as HMCS Chicoutimi (Oct 2004). Sustained fire damage in transit to Canada. Returning to service in 2014 after three years of work at Victoria Shipyard Co. Ltd. in Esquimalt. | ||
HMS Upright (N89) | U class | Royal Navy | 6 November 1939 | 21 April 1940 | Scrapped March 1946 | ||
HMS Urge (N17) | U class | Royal Navy | 30 October 1939 | 19 August 1940 | Sunk 29 April 1942 | ||
HMS Ursula / V-4 | U class | Royal Navy / Soviet Navy | 19 February 1937 | 16 February 1938 | Scrapped in May 1950 | ||
HMS Usk (N65) | U class | Royal Navy | 6 November 1939 | 7 June 1940 | Scrapped on 29 April 1942 | ||
HMS Utmost (N19) | U class | Royal Navy | 2 November 1939 | 20 April 1940 | Torpedoed and sunk on 25 November 1942 | ||
Valiant | Dreadnought class | Royal Navy | 10 December 2020 | Under Construction | |||
HMS Vampire (P72) | V class | Royal Navy | 9 November 1942 | 20 July 1943 | Scrapped at Gateshead in 1950 | ||
HMS Vandal (P64) | U class | Royal Navy | 17 March 1942 | 23 November 1942 | The submarine probably had the shortest career of any Royal Navy submarine, being lost with all 37 on-board just four days after commissioning (north of the Isle of Arran) | ||
HMS Vanguard (S28) | Vanguard class | Royal Navy | 3 September 1986 | 4 March 1992 | Active in service as of 2010 | ||
HMS Vengeance (S31) | Vanguard class | Royal Navy | 9 September 1998 | 27 November 1999 | Active in service as of 2010 | ||
HMS Venturer / HNoMS Utstein | V class | Royal Navy / Royal Norwegian Navy | 25 August 1942 | 4 May 1943 | Scrapped in Sweden in 1964 | ||
HMS Victorious (S29) | Vanguard class | Royal Navy | September 1993 | Active in service as of 2010 | |||
HMS Vigilant (S30) | Vanguard class | Royal Navy | October 1995 | Active in service as of 2010 | |||
Warspite | Dreadnought class | Royal Navy | 9 February 2023 | Under Construction |
Name | Class | Built For | Laid down | Launched | Fate | Image |
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17 de Octobre [26] | Passenger Cargo Ship | Argentine Government | 1948 (1 December) | 1950 (4 April) | ||
Accra [27] | Passenger Cargo Ship | Elder Dempster | 1945 (3 December) | 1947 (24 February) | ||
RMS Antonia | Passenger liner | Cunard Steamship Company | 1920 | 1921 (11 March) | Scrapped in 1948 | |
Apapa [28] | Passenger Cargo Ship | Elder Dempster | 1946 (2 January) | 1948 | ||
Awatea [29] | Passenger liner | Union Steam Ship Company of NZ | 1935 | 1936 (25 February) | Attacked near Bougie by German bombers and sank during the night (1942) | |
HMS Ben-my-Chree | Passenger Ferry / Seaplane carrier | Isle of Man Steam Packet | 1907 | 1908 (23 March) | Sunk on 11 January 1917 by shore-based Turkish artillery fire | |
RMS Carinthia | Passenger liner | Cunard Steamship Company | 1924 | 1925 (24 February) | Sunk by a U-boat off the coast of Ireland in 1940 | |
Chusan [30] | Passenger liner | P&O Steam Navigation Co | 1947 | 28 June 1949 | ||
SS City of Rome | Passenger liner | Inman Line | 1881 (14 June) | Scrapped in 1902 | ||
Copenhagen [31] | Passenger liner | Nordline | – | 1972 | Completed in Newcastle by Swan Hunter. By the time the ship was delivered to Nordline, the company was having financial difficulties and sold her to the Black Sea Shipping Co, where she was renamed Odessa. Scrapped in Bangladesh 2007. | |
Eva Peron [32] | Passenger Cargo Ship | Argentine Government | 1 December 1947 | 25 August 1949 | ||
Fenella | Passenger steamer | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | May 1936 | 1937 | ||
Himalaya | Steamship / Cruise liner | Steamship route (Tilbury – Mumbai – Australia) / P&O Steam Navigation Co | 5 October 1948 | Broken up in 1974 in Taiwan | ||
Hinemoa [33] | Passenger Cargo Ship | Union Steam Ship Company of NZ | 1945 | 30 May 1946 | 12 February 1971 sold to Fuji Marden & Co Ltd, Hong Kong, where she was towed in March by the tug Salvonia and scrapped. [34] | |
Hobson's Bay [35] | Passenger liner | Commonwealth Line | 4 October 1921 | |||
Kedah [36] | Passenger cargo ship | Straits Steamship Company, Singapore | 1926 | 16 July 1927 | ||
TSS Lady of Mann [37] | Passenger steamer | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 4 March 1930 | |||
SS Mayon [38] | Passenger cargo ship | Philippine Steamship Company | 26 June 1930 | |||
HMHS Newfoundland | Passenger cargo ship | Johnston Warren Lines | 24 January 1925 | Converted to Hospital ship in 1940, bombed and sunk off Salerno in 1943 with the loss of 38 lives | ||
RMS Nova Scotia [39] | Passenger cargo ship | Johnston Warren Lines | 1926 | Converted to troopship in 1941, torpedoed and sunk in the Indian Ocean SE off Natal Province in 1942, while carrying Italian prisoners: 858 lives lost | ||
RMS Orama [40] | Passenger liner | Orient Steam Navigation Company | 1923 | 20 May 1924 | Converted to troopship in 1940, sunk west of Narvik in June 1940, 19 crew were lost and 280 were taken prisoner | |
RMS Orcades | Passenger liner | Orient Steam Navigation Company | 14 October 1947 | Broken up in Kaohsiung in 1973 after being gutted by a fire in Hong Kong in 1972 | ||
RMS/HMS Orford [41] | Passenger liner | Orient Steam Navigation Company | 27 September 1927 | Converted to troopship in 1939, bombed and beached at Marseilles in 1940 while evacuating troops from France, refloated and scrapped in 1947 | ||
Oriana | Ocean liner | Orient Steam Navigation Company | 18 September 1956 | 3 November 1959 | Broken up for scrap 2005 | |
RMS Orion | Passenger liner | Orient Steam Navigation Company | 7 February 1934 | Converted to troopship in 1941, damaged in collision with HMS Revenge but repaired. Scrapped in Belgium 1963 | ||
Orizaba [42] | Passenger liner | Pacific Steam Navigation Company | 1886 | Ran aground and wrecked off Sydney in 1905 | ||
Oronsay | Passenger liner | Orient Steam Navigation Company | 1949 | 30 June 1950 | Transferred to P&O Steam Navigation Co in 1963, scrapped in Taiwan in 1975 | |
Orotava [43] | Passenger liner | Pacific Steam Navigation Company | 1889 | Sunk in 1896 but raised and reconditioned. Transferred to many other companies and eventually scrapped in 1919 | ||
Oroya [44] | Passenger liner | Pacific Steam Navigation Company | 31 August 1886 | Ran aground in the Bay of Naples in 1895 – severely damaged but repaired – Transferred to Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and scrapped in Genoa in 1909 | ||
SS Orsova [45] | Passenger liner | Orient Steam Navigation Company | 1952 | 14 May 1953 | Transferred to P&O Line ownership in 1965, scrapped in 1974 | |
Ortona / Arcadian [46] | Passenger liner | Orient Line – Pacific Steam Navigation Company | 1899 | Torpedoed in the Eastern Mediterranean while en route from Salonika to Alexandria with troops (as a troopship) – 279 lives were lost | ||
Oruba / Orion [47] | Passenger liner | Pacific Steam Navigation Company | 1889 | Purchased by the British Admiralty in 1914 and rebuilt to represent the battleship, HMS Orion, she was scuttled at Mudros Harbour, Lemnos Island, Greece as a breakwater in 1915 | ||
Otranto [48] | Passenger liner | Pacific Steam Navigation Company | 9 June 1925 | Scrapped at Faslane, Scotland in 1957 | ||
Presidente Peron [49] | Passenger Cargo Ship | Argentine Government | 3 November 1948 | |||
Queen of Bermuda [50] | Passenger liner | Furness Withy | Started construction in Walker-on-Tyne | 1 September 1932 | sold for scrap in 1966 | |
Rangatira [51] | Passenger liner | Union Steam Ship Company of NZ | 16 April 1931 | Scrapped in 1967 | ||
RMS Scythia | Passenger liner | Cunard Steamship Company | 1919 | 23 March 1920 | Scrapped in 1958 | |
RMS Strathaird | Passenger liner | P&O Steam Navigation Co | 18 July 1931 | Scrapped in Hong Kong in 1961 | ||
SS Strathallan [52] | Passenger liner | P&O Steam Navigation Co | 23 September 1937 | Damaged by torpedo in the Mediterranean on 21 December 1942, a fire the following day capsized and sunk the ship | ||
SS Stratheden [53] | Passenger liner | P&O Steam Navigation Co | Scrapped in Italy in 1969 | |||
RMS Strathmore [54] | Passenger liner | P&O Steam Navigation Co | 4 April 1935 | Scrapped in Italy in 1969 | ||
RMS Strathnaver | Passenger liner | P&O Steam Navigation Co | 5 February 1931 | Scrapped in Hong Kong in 1962 |
Name | Class | Built For | Laid down | Launched | Fate | Image |
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British Admiral [55] | Oil tanker | BP | 1963 | 1965 (17 March) | ||
British Adventure [56] | Oil tanker | BP | 1950 | 1950 (12 December) | ||
British Ambassador [57] | Oil tanker | BP | 1957 | 1958 (16 August) | ||
British Faith [58] | Oil tanker | BP | 1956 | 1957 (10 December) | ||
British Glory [59] | Oil tanker | BP | 1956 | 1957 | ||
British Grenadier [60] | Oil tanker | BP | 1961 | 1962 (16 August) | ||
British Prestige [61] | Oil tanker | BP | 1958 (23 October) | 1961 (28 July) | ||
British Sovereign [62] | Oil tanker | BP | 1953 (27 March) | 1954 (31 August) | ||
British Victory [63] | Oil tanker | BP | 1953 | 1955 | ||
Esso Canterbury [64] | Oil tanker | Esso | 30 May 1952 | 24 September 1953 | ||
Esso Westminster [65] | Oil tanker | Esso | 29 February 1952 | 24 September 1953 | ||
Estrella Patagonica / Voluta / San Casimiro [66] | Oil tanker | Shell Compania Argentina de Petroleo SA | 1962 | Scrapped Bombay in 1989 | ||
Eugenia Niarchos [67] | Oil tanker | Niarchos Group (Neptune Tanker Corporation) | May 1955 | 1956 | ||
Ficus / Empire Grenadier [68] | Oil tanker | Shell Tankers U.K. | 1942 | Scrapped in 1960 | ||
Hinea [69] | Oil tanker | Shell | 1956 | Scrapped in 1976 | ||
Hinnites [70] | Oil tanker | Shell | 1956 | Scrapped in 1975 | ||
Humilaria / San Edmundo [71] | Oil tanker | Eagle Oil | 1958 | Scrapped in 1973 | ||
Kennerleya / Empire Granite [72] | Oil tanker | Shell UK | 1941 | Scrapped in 1960 | ||
Marinula / Santa Margherita / Trigonia [73] | Oil tanker | Eagle Oil | 1916 | Scrapped Newport in 1951 | ||
Methane Princess | LNG carrier | British Gas | Scrapped in 1998 | |||
Narragansett [74] | Oil tanker | Anglo-American Oil Company | 1919 | 1920 | ||
Rebeca [75] | Oil tanker | Antilles Curaçaosche Scheepvaart Maatschappij | 1938 | Scrapped in 1954 | ||
Rosalia [76] | Oil tanker | Antilles Curaçaosche Scheepvaart Maatschappij | 1938 | Sunk in 1943 | ||
San Calisto / Vermetus [77] | Oil tanker | Eagle Oil / Shell UK | 1959 | Scrapped in 1975 | ||
San Conrado / Valvata [78] | Oil tanker | Eagle Oil / Shell UK | 1960 | Scrapped in 1975 | ||
San Gregorio / Vitta [79] | Oil tanker | Eagle Oil | July 1956 | 1957 | Scrapped in 1975 | |
San Patricio / Pecten [80] | Oil tanker | Shell Compania Argentina de Petroleo SA / Eagle Oil | 1955 | Scrapped in 1986 | ||
Serenia [81] | Oil tanker | Shell | 1961 | Scrapped in 1987 | ||
SS Spyros Niarchos [82] | Oil tanker | Niarchos Group | 1955 | 1956 | Scrapped in 1977 |
Name | Class | Built For | Laid down | Launched | Fate | Image |
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Affonso Penna [83] | Floating dry dock | Brazilian Government | 1910 (7 June) | |||
Anglia [84] | Cable Ship | Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company | 1898 (20 June) | |||
Aries [85] | Steam Yacht | Sir James Ramsden | 1873 | Wrecked at Hollyhead 29 March 1880 | ||
Carl Schmedeman [86] | Cargo ship | Tropical Steamship Company, Toronto | 1 June 1951 | 12 May 1952 | ||
Duke of Connaught [87] | Floating dry dock | Canadian Vickers, Montreal | 1912 | 1912 | ||
Duke of Devonshire [88] | Screw Barque | Eastern Steam Ships Co Ltd | 1873 (25 Jun) | |||
HMCS Earl Grey [89] | Ice breaker | Canadian Government | June 1909 | |||
Empire Admiral | Cargo ship | Ministry of War Transport | 26 March 1945 | Scrapped in Taiwan, March 1969 | ||
Empire Athelstan | Heavy lift ship | Ministry of War Transport | 15 January 1946 | Scrapped in Yugoslavia, January 1976 | ||
Empire Charmian | Heavy lift ship | Ministry of War Transport | 25 November 1942 | Scrapped in India, March 1962 | ||
HMS Exmouth / HMS Worcester [90] | School ship | Metropolitan Asylums Board | 4 April 1905 | Accommodation for the Royal Navy at Scapa Flow | ||
Geraldine Mary [91] | Cargo ship | Anglo-Newfoundland Shipping Company | 19 August 1924 | |||
JH Hunter | Sludge vessel | London County Council | 2 October 1924 | |||
Kurtuluş | Cargo ship | Cargo ship (also transported food in the 1941–42 Greek famine) | 1883 | Ran aground and sunk near Marmara Island | ||
Modavia [92] | Cargo ship | Donaldson Line | 1925 | 23 September 1926 | Torpedoed and sunk by E-boat in Lyme Bay in 1943 | |
Moreton Bay [93] | Cargo ship | Donaldson Line | 1921 | |||
Moveria [94] | Cargo ship | Donaldson Line | 10 October 1924 | Broken up in 1952 |
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