List of ships and submarines built in Barrow-in-Furness

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.

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 nuclear submarines (with the exception of HMS Conqueror, HMS Renown and HMS Revenge, built in Birkenhead) 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 Hermes and HMS Invincible. HMS Upholder (the most successful Royal Navy submarine of World War II) and 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, Orient Line and P&O.

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Active vessels

As of 2011, the following ships and submarines built in Barrow are active in service around the world.

All vessels

Military ships

Name Class Built For Laid down Launched Fate Image
ARA La Argentina Light cruiser Argentine Navy 11 January 1936 16 March 1937 Decommissioned and scrapped in 1974
HMS Ajax (22) Leander class Light cruiser  Royal Navy 7 February 1933 1 March 1934 Decommissioned and scrapped (1948, 1949 respectively)
HMS Albion (L14) Albion class landing platform dock  Royal Navy 23 May 1998 9 March 2001 Active in service as of 2010
Almirante Saldanha Training ship Brazilian Navy 1 June 1933 19 December 1933
Almirante Riveros Destroyer Chilean Navy 12 December 1958 Sunk as target in 1998
Almirante Williams Destroyer Chilean Navy 12 December 1958 Sunk as target in 1998
F.N.V. D-11 Nueva Esparta [1] Nueva Esparta Class Destroyer Venezuelan Navy 1951 19 November 1952 Decommissioned and scrapped mid 80's
F.N.V. D-21 Zulia [2] Nueva Esparta Class Destroyer Venezuelan Navy 1951 29 June 1953 Decommissioned and scrapped mid 80's
F.N.V D-31 Aragua Nueva Esparta Class Destroyer
Aragua Subclass destroyer
Venezuelan Navy 1953 27 January 1955 Decommissioned and scrapped late 70's
Araucano Submarine depot ship Chilean Navy 22 August 1929
HMS Arrow (H47) A class destroyer  Royal Navy 22 October 1929 Damaged beyond repair in Algiers harbour in 1944 when an ammunition ship exploded. The hulk was broken up in May 1949
São Paulo Minas Gerais class battleship Brazilian Navy 1907–1909 1909 Sunk in a heavy gale 150 nautical miles (280 km) from the Azores, while under tow for scrapping, 1951.
Minas Gerais [3] Minas Gerais class battleship Brazilian Navy 17 April 1907 Scrapped in Italy in 1954.
Buenos Aires [4] Destroyer Argentine Navy February 1937 21 September 1937
HMS Bulwark (L15) Albion class landing platform dock  Royal Navy 27 January 2000 15 November 2001 Active in service as of 2010
HMS Cardiff (D108) Type 42 Destroyer  Royal Navy 6 November 1972 22 February 1974 Sold for scrap in 2008
HMS Colossus /
French aircraft carrier Arromanches
Colossus class aircraft carrier  Royal Navy / French Navy 30 September 1943 Decommissioned in 1974, and broken up in 1978
Crescent /
HMCS Fraser [5]
C class destroyer  Royal Navy /
 Royal Canadian Navy
29 September 1931
HMS Cumberland (57) County class cruiser  Royal Navy 18 October 1924 16 March 1926 Sold for scrap in 1959
Cygnet /
HMCS St. Laurent [6]
C class destroyer  Royal Navy /
 Royal Canadian Navy
29 September 1931
Defender (H07) [7] D class destroyer  Royal Navy 7 April 1932
HMS Emperor of India Iron Duke class battleship  Royal Navy 31 May 1912 27 November 1913 Sunk as target ship 1931, then raised and scrapped 1932
Entre Rios [8] Destroyer  Argentina Argentine Navy 15 October 1936 21 September 1937
Fame /
Generalisimo [9]
F class destroyer  Royal Navy /
 Dominican Navy
4 October 1933 28 June 1934
Firedrake [10] F class destroyer  Royal Navy 31 August 1933 28 June 1934 Sunk by U-211 on 16 December 1942
Harvester /
Handy /
Jurua [11]
Destroyer Brazilian Navy 1938
Hurricane /
Japarua [12]
Destroyer Brazilian Navy 1938
Reshadiye /
HMS Erin
Battleship Ottoman Empire /
 Royal Navy
1 August 1911 3 September 1913 Scrapped
HMS Doris [13] Eclipse class cruiser  Royal Navy August 1894 Sold for scrap in 1919
HMS Juno [14] Eclipse class cruiser  Royal Navy June 1895 Sold for scrap in 1920
Corrientes [15] Destroyer Argentine Navy 1 February 1937 21 September 1937
HMCS Niobe Diadem class cruiser  Royal Navy /
 Royal Canadian Navy
Early 1897 Scrapped and broken up in 1922 in Philadelphia
HMCS Sioux (R64) /
HMS Vixen (R64)
V class  Royal Navy /
 Royal Canadian Navy
1942 1943 Paid off in October 1963
HMS Adventure (M23) Minelaying cruiser  Royal Navy 29 November 1922 18 June 1924 To repair ship 1944, sold for scrapping 1947
HMS Diamond (H22) D class destroyer  Royal Navy 29 September 1931 8 April 1932 Sunk by German Ju 87 Stukadive bombers with the loss of 148 men
HMS Eastbourne (F73) Whitby class frigate  Royal Navy 13 January 1954 29 December 1955 Paid off 1984, sold for scrapping in 1985
HMS Erne (U03) Black Swan class  Royal Navy 26 May 1938 18 April 1939 Broken up at Antwerp on 27 October 1965
HMS Fife (D20) /
Blanco Encalada
County class destroyer  Royal Navy /
Chilean Navy
1 June 1962 9 July 1964 Sold for Scrap in 2005
HMS Greyhound (H05) G class destroyer  Royal Navy 20 September 1934 15 August 1935 Sank on 22 May 1941 in the Battle of Crete
HMS Griffin (H31) /
HMCS Ottawa
G class destroyer  Royal Navy /
 Royal Canadian Navy
20 September 1934 15 August 1935 Disposed of in Canada
TCG Muavenet /
HMS Inconstant (H49)
I class destroyer Turkish Navy /
 Royal Navy
24 May 1939 24 February 1941 Discarded in 1960
HMS Illustrious (87) Illustrious class aircraft carrier  Royal Navy 27 April 1937 5 April 1939 Scrapped at Faslane in 1956
HMS Indomitable (92) Illustrious class aircraft carrier  Royal Navy 10 December 1937 26 March 1940 Sold for scrap in 1955
HMS Invincible (R05) Invincible class aircraft carrier  Royal Navy 20 July 1973 3 May 1977 Sold for scrap in 2011
HMS Ithuriel (H05) I class destroyer Turkish Navy 24 May 1939 15 December 1940 Attacked by enemy German aircraft at Bone in Algeria on 28 November 1942 and damaged beyond repair
HMS Jamaica (C44) Crown Colony class cruiser  Royal Navy 28 April 1939 16 November 1940 Scrapped in 1960s
SS/HMS Jervis Bay Ocean liner turned Armed Merchant Cruiser Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line /
 Royal Navy
1922 Sunk on 5 November 1940 by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer in the mid-Atlantic with a loss of 190 crew
Japanese battleship Katori Pre-dreadnought battleship  Imperial Japanese Navy 27 April 1904 4 July 1905 Scrapped in 1924
HMS Juno (1895) Eclipse class cruiser  Royal Navy 16 November 1895 Sold for scrap in 1920
HMS Lion Lion class battleship  Royal Navy 1938 Scrapped whilst under construction in 1941
HMS Liverpool (1909) Bristol-class Light cruiser  Royal Navy February 1909 30 October 1909 Sold for scrap
HMS Medway (F25) Submarine depot ship  Royal Navy 19 July 1928 Torpedoed and sunk on 30 June 1942 in the Mediterranean with the loss of 30 crew
HMS Ocean (L12) Helicopter Landing Platform  Royal Navy 30 May 1994 (Built by Govan Shipbuilders - Scotland, fitted out in Barrow) 11 October 1995 Active in service as of 2010
HMS Pioneer (R76) Colossus class aircraft carrier  Royal Navy 2 December 1942 20 May 1944 Decommissioned and sold for scrap in September 1954 after a year of being reactivated to a ferry carrier
HMS Powerful (1895) Powerful class cruiser  Royal Navy 1894 24 July 1895 Scrapped in 1929
HMS Spartan (95) Bellona class cruiser  Royal Navy 21 December 1939 27 August 1942 Sunk by a Fritz X from a German aircraft off Anzio, western Italy on 29 January 1944 – 41 dead and 42 wounded
HMS Vanguard (1909) St. Vincent class battleship  Royal Navy 2 April 1908 22 February 1909 Sunk by internal explosion 9 July 1917 killing 843 men, making it the worst explosion in the UK's history and on of the Royal navy's biggest accidental losses
HMS Hermes (R12) /
INS Viraat
Centaur class aircraft carrier  Royal Navy /
 Indian Navy
21 June 1944 16 February 1953 Active in service as of 2007 (for Indian navy)
ARA Hércules Type 42 destroyer Argentine Navy 7 June 1983 10 May 1976 Currently operates as a multipurpose transport ship
Japanese battleship Kongō Kongō class battlecruiser  Imperial Japanese Navy 17 January 1911 18 May 1912 Torpedoed and sunk on 21 November 1944 in the Formosa Strait with the loss of 1,250 crew by USS Sealion (SS-315)
HMS Manchester (D95) Type 42 destroyer  Royal Navy 19 May 1978 24 November 1980 Decommissioned from RN service in February 2011
HMS Majestic /
HMAS Melbourne (R21)
Majestic class aircraft carrier  Royal Navy /
Royal Australian Navy
15 April 1943 28 February 1945 Scrapped at Dalian, China
Japanese battleship Mikasa Pre-dreadnought battleship  Imperial Japanese Navy 24 January 1898 8 November 1900 Transformed as a memorial ship in Yokosuka, Japan
HMS Mohawk (F125) Tribal class frigate  Royal Navy 23 December 1960 5 April 1962 Sold for scrap
HMS Princess Royal (1911) Battlecruiser  Royal Navy 2 May 1910 24 April 1911 Attacked in the Battle of Jutland with 22 casualties. Later scrapped in 1922
Resource [16] Fleet Repair ship  Royal Navy 27 November 1928
HMS Revenge (06) Revenge class battleship  Royal Navy 22 December 1913 29 May 1915 Scrapped in 1948
Rurik (1906) Armoured cruiser Imperial Russian Navy August 1905 4 November 1906 Sold for scrap in 1930
HMS Scarborough (F63) Whitby class frigate  Royal Navy 11 September 1953 4 April 1955 Paid off 1972, sold for scrapping in 1977
HMS Sheffield (D80) Type 42 destroyer  Royal Navy 15 January 1970 10 June 1971 Sunk on 10 May 1982 after Argentine air attack on 4 May 1982 during Falklands War
Libertad /
HMS Triumph (1903)
Swiftsure class battleship Chilean Navy /
 Royal Navy
15 January 1903 sunk by U-21 off Dardanelles 25 May 1915
RFA Wave Knight (A389) Wave Knight class tanker  Royal Navy 22 May 1998 September 2000 Active in service as of 2010
T.S. Dufferin [17] Troopship Indian Government 14 September 1904

Submarines

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
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 Alcide (P415) Amphion class  Royal Navy 2 January 1945 12 April 1945 Sold to be broken up for scrap in 1974
HMS Alderney (P416) Amphion class  Royal Navy 6 February 1945 25 June 1945 Sold to be broken up for scrap in 1972
HMS Alliance (P417) Amphion class  Royal Navy 13 March 1945 28 July 1945 Museum ship/memorial since 1981 at Royal Navy Submarine Museum
HMS Ambush (P418) 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 Fitting out
HMS Amphion (P439) Amphion class  Royal Navy 31 August 1944 27 March 1945 Sold to be broken up for scrap in 1971
HMS Anchorite (P422) 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 Under construction
HMS Artful (S121) Astute class  Royal Navy 11 March 2005 Under construction
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 Under construction
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 [18] 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 [19] Portuguese Navy 1933 1 May 1934
HMS Dreadnought (S101) Nuclear-powered  Royal Navy 12 June 1959 21 October 1960 As of 2004, is laid up at Rosyth
HMS E4 E class  Royal Navy 16 May 1911 5 February 1912 Sold on 21 February 1922
Espardarte' [20] 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
Golfino [21] 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 [22]  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 (S03) [23] 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
Burak Reis Oruc Reis class Turkish Navy 19 October 1940 Scrapped in 1957
Murat Reis Oruc Reis class Turkish Navy 20 July 1940 Scrapped in 1957
Oruc Reis Oruc Reis class Turkish Navy 19 July 1940 Scrapped in 1957
Uluc Ali Reis Oruc 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 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) [24] 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) [25] Porpoise class  Royal Navy 1936 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) [26] 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 Late 1970s Decommissioned in early 2000s
HMS Repulse (S23) Resolution class ballistic missile  Royal Navy 4 November 1967 Decommissioned in 1996
HMS Resolution (S22) Resolution class ballistic missile  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 (2) T class  Royal Navy /
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 Fell victim to depth charges dropped to an Italian Orsa class torpedo boat north-east of Tripoli (on her last mission)
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 (N59)/ 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
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

Civilian ships

Name Class Built For Laid down Launched Fate Image
17 de Octobre[2] Passenger Cargo Ship Argentine Government 1948
(1 December)
1950
(4 April)
Accra[3] Passenger Cargo Ship Elder Dempster 1945
(3 December)
1947
(24 February)
Affonso Penna [4] Floating dock Brazilian Government 1910
(7 June)
Anglia[5] Cable Ship Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company 1898
(20 June)
RMS Antonia Passenger liner Cunard Steamship Company 1920 1921
(11 March)
Scrapped in 1948
Apapa[6] Passenger Cargo Ship Elder Dempster 1946
(2 January)
1948
Awatea [7] Passenger liner Union Steamship Company of New Zealand 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
British Admiral [8] Oil tanker BP 1963 1965
(17 March)
British Adventure [9] Oil tanker BP 1950 1950
(12 December)
British Ambassador [10] Oil tanker BP 1957 1958
(16 August)
British Faith [11] Oil tanker BP 1956 1957
(10 December)
British Glory [12] Oil tanker BP 1956 1957
British Grenadier [13] Oil tanker BP 1961 1962
(16 August)
British Prestige [14] Oil tanker BP 1958
(23 October)
1961
(28 July)
British Sovereign [15] Oil tanker BP 1953
(27 March)
1954
(31 August)
British Victory [16] Oil tanker BP 1953 1955
RMS Carinthia Passenger liner Cunard Steamship Company 1924 1925
(24 February)
Sunk by a U-boat off the coast of Ireland in 1940
Carl Schmedeman [17] Cargo ship Tropical Steamship Company, Toronto 1 June 1951 12 May 1952
SS Chusan [18] Passenger liner Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company 1947 28 June 1949
Copenhagen [19] 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.
Duke of Connaught [20] Floating dock Canadian Vickers, Montreal 1912 1912
HMCS Earl Grey [21] 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
Esso Canterbury [22] Oil tanker Esso 30 May 1952 24 September 1953
Esso Westminster [23] Oil tanker Esso 29 February 1952 24 September 1953
Estrella Patagonica /
Voluta /
San Casimiro [24]
Oil tanker Shell Compania Argentina de Petroleo SA 1962 Scrapped Bombay in 1989
Eugenia Niarchos [25] Oil tanker Niarchos Group (Neptune Tanker Corporation) May 1955 1956
Eva Peron [26] Passenger Cargo Ship Argentine Government 1 December 1947 25 August 1949
HMS Exmouth /
HMS Worcester [27]
School ship Metropolitan Asylums Board 4 April 1905 Accommodation for the Royal Navy at Scapa Flow
SS Fenella Passenger steamer Isle of Man Steam Packet Company May 1936 1937
Ficus /
Empire Grenadier [27]
Oil tanker Shell Tankers U.K. 1942 Scrapped in 1960
Geraldine Mary [28] Cargo ship Anglo-Newfoundland Shipping Company 19 August 1924
SS Himalaya Steamship /
Cruise liner
Steamship route (Tilbury - Mumbai - Australia) /
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
5 October 1948 Broken up in 1974 in Taiwan
Hindsia [29] Oil tanker Shell Bermuda May 1954 1955
Hinea [30] Oil tanker Shell 1956 Scrapped in 1976
Hinemoa [31] Passenger Cargo Ship Union Steamship Company of New Zealand 1945 30 May 1946
Hinnites [32] Oil tanker Shell 1956 Scrapped in 1975
Hobson's Bay [33] Passenger liner Australian Commonwealth Government Line 4 October 1921
Humilaria /
San Edmundo [34]
Oil tanker Shell UK /
Eagle Oil
1958 Scrapped in 1973
JH Hunter Sludge vessel London County Council 2 October 1924
Kedah [35] Passenger cargo ship Straits Steamship Company, Singapore 1926 16 July 1927
Kennerleya /
Empire Granite [36]
Oil tanker Shell UK 1941 Scrapped in 1960
SS Kurtuluş Cargo ship Cargo ship (also transported food in the great famine of Greece 1883 Ran aground and sunk near Marmara Island
TSS Lady of Mann [28] Passenger steamer Isle of Man Steam Packet Company 4 March 1930
Marinula /
Santa Marcherita /
Trigonia [37]
Oil tanker Shell 1916 Scrapped Newport in 1951
SS Mayon [38] Passenger cargo ship Philippine Steamship Company 26 June 1930
MV Methane Princess LNG carrier British Gas Scrapped in 1998
Modavia [39] Cargo ship Donaldson Line 1925 23 September 1926 Torpedoed and sunk by E-boat in Lyme Bay in 1943
Monarch of Bermuda [40] Passenger liner Furness Whithy Started construction in Walker-on-Tyne 17 March 1931
Moreton Bay [41] Cargo ship Donaldson Line 1921
Moveria [42] Cargo ship Donaldson Line 10 October 1924 Broken up in 1952
HMHS Newfoundland Passenger cargo ship Warren Line 24 January 1925 Converted to Hospital ship in 1940, bombed and sunk off Salerno in 1943 with the loss of 38 lives
Nova Scotia [43] Passenger cargo ship Warren Line 1926 Converted to troopship in 1941, torpedoed and sunk in the Indian Ocean SE of Lourenço Marques in 1942, while carrying Italian prisoners 858 lives were lost
Narragansett [44] Oil tanker Anglo-American Oil Company 1919 1920
RMS Orama [45] 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 [46] 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
SS 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 [47] Passenger liner Pacific Steam Navigation Company 1886 Ran aground and wrecked off Sydney in 1905
SS Oronsay Passenger liner Orient Steam Navigation Company 1949 30 June 1950 Transferred to P&O Line ownership in 1963, scrapped in Taiwan in 1975
Orotava [48] 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 [49] 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 [50] Passenger liner Orient Steam Navigation Company 1952 14 May 1953 Transferred to P&O Line ownership in 1965, scrapped in 1974
Ortona /
Arcadian [51]
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 [52]
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
Otaio [53] Cargo ship New Zealand Shipping Company 1929 26 August 1930
Otranto [54] Passenger liner Pacific Steam Navigation Company 9 June 1925 Scrapped at Faslane, Scotland in 1957
Presidente Peron [55] Passenger Cargo Ship Argentine Government 3 November 1948
Queen of Bermuda [56] Passenger liner Furness Whithy Started construction in Walker-on-Tyne 1 September 1932 sold for scrap in 1966
Rangatira [57] Passenger liner Union Steamship Company of New Zealand 16 April 1931 Scrapped in 1967
Rebeca [58] Oil tanker Antilles Curaçaosche Scheepvaart Maatschappij 1938 Scrapped in 1954
Rosalia [59] Oil tanker Antilles Curaçaosche Scheepvaart Maatschappij 1938 Sunk in 1943
San Calisto /
Vermetus [60]
Oil tanker Eagle Oil /
Shell UK
1959 Scrapped in 1975
San Conrado /
Valvata [61]
Oil tanker Eagle Oil /
Shell UK
1960 Scrapped in 1975
San Gregorio /
Vitta [62]
Oil tanker Eagle Tanker Company July 1956 1957 Scrapped in 1975
San Patricio /
Pecten [63]
Oil tanker Shell Compania Argentina de Petroleo SA /
Eagle Oil
1955 Scrapped in 1986
RMS Scythia Passenger liner Cunard Steamship Company 1919 23 March 1920 Scrapped in 1958
Serenia [64] Oil tanker Shell 1961 Scrapped in 1987
RMS Strathaird Passenger liner Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company 18 July 1931 Scrapped in Hong Kong in 1961
RMS Strathmore[65] Passenger liner Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company 4 April 1935 Scrapped in Italy in 1969
RMS Strathnaver Passenger liner Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company 5 February 1931 Scrapped in Hong Kong in 1962

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Notables to launch vessels

See also

References

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