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This is a list of Royal Navy submarines, arranged chronologically.

Petro-electric submarines[]

File:Smfirstholland.jpg

HMS Holland 1, the first submarine to serve in the Royal Navy

A class submarines

A class submarines, the first British-designed class

Pre-Second World War[]

G9 at Scapa

HMS G9 at Scapa Flow in 1917

British Submarine HMS M2, 2

HMS M2 with her sea plane

HMS Thorn

HMS Thorn

Second World War to mid-1950s[]

HMS Alliance S67

HMS Alliance at Gosport (where she is now part of the submarine museum) in 1987

HMS Voracious SLV Green 1945

HMS Voracious in 1945

late 1950s to late 1980s[]

From HMS Porpoise Royal Navy submarines were given their own "S" pennant numbers.

Valiant class submarine 1986

A Valiant-class nuclear submarine. Whilst HMS Dreadnought had an American reactor, these were fully British-built

HMS Tireless S-88

HMS Tireless at the North Pole

1990s to present[]

  • Upholder class (Diesel-electric hunter-killer)
Astute2cropped

HMS Astute being launched

See also[]

References[]

  1. Jim Dorschner (27 May 2009). "Special Delivery". p. 28. 
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