Light Submersibles 1932-1945: S-class Group III: 50 +11 cancelled, War Emergency Programmes 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, built 1940-1945 The S-class are generally associated with the wartime Group III, by far the most numerous (50 boats, 11 cancelled). They followed the interwar Group I (Swordfish) and Group II (Sealion) with a 1939 mass construction war … Read more
Light Submersibles 1932-1945: 49 built, Unity class, Group II, III Group I: HMS Undine, Unity, Ursula The U-class submarines, also known as Undine-class, were a group of diesel-electric submarines built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s and saw extensive service throughout World War II. They were relatively small and designed for operations in the … Read more
United Kingdom, Nuclear Powered Attack Submarine (1963-1980). For the seventh use of the world’s famous name “dreadnought” UK saw its most fitting application could only be its first nuclear-powered submarine. The fruit of long R&D started in Britain postwar, HMS Dreadnought (S101) was a design worked on from 1954 -with opposition from Hyman Rickover at … Read more
Oceanic Submersibles 1945-1974: 46 ordered Programme 1943, 16 completed: Amphion, Astute, Auriga, Aurochs, Alcide, Alderney, Alliance, Ambus, Anchorite, Andrew, Affray, Aeneas, Alaric, Artemis, Artful, Acheron. Cancelled under completion: Ace, Achates The “A class” or Amphion, were the last submersibles planned by the British admiralty in WW2, designed for Operations in the Pacific. Indeed after Pearl … Read more
Oceanic Submersibles 1932-1945: 53 total: Group I 1935-38: Triton, Thunderbolt, Tribune, Trident, Triumph, Taku, Tarpon, Thistle, Tigris, Triad, Truant, Group 3 boats, Talisman, Tetrarch, Torbay Group II 1939-41: Tempest, Thorn, Thrasher, Traveller, Trooper, Trusty, Turbulent. Group III 1942-45: P311, Trespasser, Taurus, Tactician, Truculent, Templar, Tally-Ho, Tantalus, Tantivy. Telemachus, Talent, Terrapin, Thorough, Thule, Tudor, Tireless, Token, … Read more
Coastal Submersibles (U-class long hull) V-class: 22 +24 cancelled, War Emergency Programme 1942, built 1942-1944 The V-class, officially the “U class, long hull”, was a late war ultimate variant of the wartime U-class, the third pillar of the British underwater Forces in world war two, especially active in the Mediterranean. These were a development of … Read more
Light Submersibles 1932-1945: S-class Group II: HMS Sealion, Shark, Snapper, Salmon, Seawolf, Spearfish, Sunfish, Sterlet Development The S-class submarines were originally designed when the need arose to modernize the submarine in the interwar, create smaller models fit for the North Sea and Mediterranean and replace the 1915 built H-class, still numerous in inventory and now … Read more
R (Rainbow) class submersibles (1930) Patrol Submersibles 1929-1931: HMS Rainbow, Regulus, Regent, Rover The Rainbow-class submarine (R class) were four patrol submarines built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. Although six were envisioned at first, only four were completed due to budgetary reason. The class comprised the HMS Rainbow, Regulus, Rover, and Regent. … Read more
