This is a list of Royal Navy submarines, arranged chronologically. Submarines that are currently active and commissioned are shown below in bold.
Pre-First World War
HMS Holland 1, the first submarine to serve in the Royal Navy
A-class submarines, the first British-designed class
First World War
HMS G9 at Scapa Flow in 1917
HMS M2 with her sea plane
HMS Thorn
Interwar years
Second World War
HMS Alliance at Gosport (where she is now part of the submarine museum) in 1987
HMS Voracious in 1945
- S (safari) class (War Emergency Programme)
- T (Tempest) class (War Emergency Programme)
- U (Umpire) class (War Emergency Programme)
- P611 class
- HMS P611
- HMS P612
- HMS P614
- HMS P615
- United States R-class submarine
- U (Uproar) class
- V (Vampire) class
Cold War
To mid-1950s
- Amphion class
- Amphion (P439/S39/S43) (laid down as Anchorite but name changed before launch)
- Astute (P447/S47/S45)
- Auriga (P419/S19/S69)
- Aurochs (P426/S26/S62)
- Alcide (P415/S15/S65)
- Alderney (P416/S16/S66)
- Alliance (P417/S17/S67)
- Ambush (P418/S18/S68)
- Anchorite (P422/S22/S64)
- Andrew (P423/S23/S63)
- Affray (P421)
- Aeneas (P427/S27/S72/SSG72)
- Alaric (P441/S41)
- Artemis (P449/S39/S49)
- Artful (P456/S56/S96)
- Acheron (P411/S11/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 (PWR1 nuclear-powered hunter-killer)
- Resolution class (PWR1 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 (PWR1 nuclear-powered hunter-killer)
- Churchill, commissioned/decommissioned: 1970–1991
- Conqueror, c/d: 1971–1990
- Courageous, c/d: 1971–1992
- Swiftsure class (PWR1 nuclear-powered hunter-killer)
- Trafalgar class (PWR1 nuclear-powered hunter-killer)
1990s to present
- Upholder class (Diesel-electric hunter-killer) Transferred to Canada as the Victoria-class submarine
HMS Astute being launched
- Vanguard class (PWR2 nuclear-powered ballistic missile)
- Vanguard, commissioned: 1993
- Victorious, commissioned: 1995
- Vigilant, commissioned: 1996
- Vengeance, commissioned: 1999
- Astute class (PWR2 nuclear-powered hunter-killer)
- Dreadnought class (PWR3 nuclear-powered ballistic missile)[1]
- Dreadnought, under construction - first elements of construction underway in 2016[2]
- Valiant, under construction
- Warspite, ordered
- King George VI, ordered
See also
References
- ↑ "New Successor Submarines Named" (Press release). Gov.uk. 21 October 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
- ↑ "New nuclear submarine given famous naval name". BBC News. 21 October 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
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