List of submarines of the Royal Navy
This is a list of Royal Navy submarines, arranged chronologically.
Petro-electric submarines
HMS Holland 1, the first submarine to serve in the Royal Navy
A class submarines, the first British-designed class
- Holland class
- A class
- B class
- 11 boats, 1904–1906
- C class
- 38 boats, 1906–1910
Pre-Second World War
HMS G9 at Scapa Flow in 1917
HMS M2 with her sea plane
HMS Thorn
- D class
- E class
- F class
- S class
- V class
- W class
- G class
- H class
- J class
- K class
- L class
- M class
- Nautilus class
- R class
- HMS X1
- Odin class
- Parthian class
- Rainbow class
- S class
- River or Thames class
- Grampus class
- T class
Second World War to mid-1950s
HMS Alliance at Gosport (where she is now part of the submarine museum) in 1987
HMS Voracious in 1945
- Undine class
- P611 class
- HMS P614
- HMS P612
- HMS P611
- HMS P615
- United States R-class submarine
- Umpire class
- Vampire class
- Amphion class
- Amphion (P439/S43)
- Astute (P447)
- Auriga (P419/S69)
- Aurochs (P426)
- Alcide (P415/S65)
- Alderney (P416/S66)
- Alliance (P417/S67)
- Ambush (P418)
- Anchorite (P422)
- Andrew (P423/S63)
- Affray (P421)
- Aeneas (P427/S72)
- Alaric (P441)
- Artemis (P449/S49)
- Artful (P456/S96)
- Acheron (P411/S61)
- Ace (P414)
- Achates (P433)
- Explorer class
- Stickleback class (midget submarines)
- X51 Stickleback
- X52 Shrimp
- X53 Sprat
- X54 Minnow
- Foreign Built
- Graph (P715) – German Type VII U-boat
- Meteorite – German Type XVII U-boat
- N2 – German Type VII-C/41 U-boat
- X2 – Italian, Archimede-class submarine
late 1950s to late 1980s
From HMS Porpoise Royal Navy submarines were given their own "S" pennant numbers.
A Valiant-class nuclear submarine. Whilst HMS Dreadnought had an American reactor, these were fully British-built
HMS Tireless at the North Pole
- Porpoise class (Diesel-electric hunter-killer)
- Oberon class (Diesel-electric hunter-killer)
- Oberon, commissioned/decommissioned: 1961/1986
- Onslaught, c/d: 1962/1990
- Orpheus, c/d: 1960/1990 (harbour service from 1987)
- Odin, c/d: 1962/1990
- Otter, c/d: 1962/1991
- Olympus, c/d: 1961/1989
- Oracle, c/d: 1963/1993
- Ocelot, c/d: 1964/1991
- Otus, c/d: 1963/1991
- Opossum, c/d: 1964/1993
- Opportune, c/d: 1964/1993
- Osiris, c/d: 1964/1989
- Onyx, c/d: 1967/1991
- Dreadnought (Nuclear-powered hunter-killer), commissioned/decommissioned: 1963/1980
- Valiant class (Nuclear-powered hunter-killer)
- Resolution class (Nuclear-powered ballistic missile)
- Resolution, commissioned/decommissioned: 1967/1994
- Repulse, c/d: 1967/1996
- Renown, c/d: 1967/1996
- Revenge, c/d: 1969/1992
- Churchill class (Nuclear-powered hunter-killer)
- Churchill, commissioned/decommissioned: 1970/1991
- Conqueror, c/d: 1971/1990
- Courageous, c/d: 1971/1992
- Swiftsure class (Nuclear-powered hunter-killer)
- Trafalgar class (Nuclear-powered hunter-killer)
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
HMS Astute being launched
- Vanguard class (Nuclear-powered ballistic missile)
- Vanguard, commissioned: 1993
- Victorious, commissioned: 1995
- Vigilant, commissioned: 1996
- Vengeance, commissioned: 1999
- Astute class (Nuclear-powered hunter-killer)
- LR5 manned submersible (for rescue) - leased to the Royal Australian Navy in 2009
- SDV Mk8 Mod 1 - 3 mini-submarines used by the Special Boat Service of the Royal Marines[1]
See also
References
- ↑ Jim Dorschner (27 May 2009). "Special Delivery". Janes Defence Weekly, Vol. 46, Issue 21: 28.