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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 list may not reflect recent changes .
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
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 ...
First submarines of the Royal Navy A class: 13 HMS A1 19 February 1902 HMS A13 22 June 1908 Royal Navy's first class of British-designed submarines B class: 11 HMS B1 25 October 1904 HMS B11 1906 C class: 38 HMS C1 13 November 1905 HMS C38 10 February 1910 Last class of petrol powered submarines of the Royal Navy
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 aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinking after being torpedoed by a German submarine in November 1941, the assisting destroyer HMS Legion was sunk in 1942. This is a list of Royal Navy ships and personnel lost during World War II, from 3 September 1939 to 1 October 1945. See also List of ships of the Royal Navy.
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.
View history; General ... Ships sunk by British submarines (1 C, 54 P, 1 F) ... List of specifications of submarines of World War II