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HMS Holland 1, the first submarine to serve in the Royal Navy A-class submarines, the first British-designed class. Holland class. Holland 1, launched: 2 October 1901, decommissioned: 5 November 1913
British V-class submarines (11 P) Pages in category "World War II submarines of the United Kingdom" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 224 total.
This is a list of submarines of World War II, which began with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 and ended with the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945. Germany used submarines to devastating effect in the Battle of the Atlantic , where it attempted to cut Britain's supply routes by sinking more merchant ships than Britain ...
The Royal Navy's T class (or Triton class) of diesel-electric submarines was designed in the 1930s to replace the O, P, and R classes. Fifty-three members of the class were built just before and during the Second World War, where they played a major role in the Royal Navy's submarine operations.
At the start of World War II, the Royal Navy was the strongest navy in the world, [1] with the largest number of warships built and with naval bases across the globe. [2] It had over 15 battleships and battlecruisers, 7 aircraft carriers, 66 cruisers, 164 destroyers and 66 submarines. [2]
The British U-class submarines (officially "War Emergency 1940 and 1941 programmes, short hull") [1] were a class of 49 small submarines built just before and during the Second World War. The class is sometimes known as the Undine class, after the first submarine built. A further development was the British V-class submarine of 1942.
The British V-class submarine (officially "U-Class Long hull 1941–42 programme") was a class of submarines built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. [1]
Sealion a pre-war S-class submarine. Admiral Sir John Eccles, Commander in Chief Home Fleet, boarding the X-craft Minnow at Portland. H-class submarine [117] L-class submarine [43] Odin-class submarine [118] Parthian-class submarine [119] Rainbow-class submarine [120] S-class submarine [43] [121] River-class submarine (also known as the Thames ...