This is a list of submarine classes of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. Dates of construction given.

Petrol-electric

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!No.

!First ship laid down

!Last ship commissioned

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|5

|HMS Holland 1

2 October 1901

|HMS Holland 5

1902

|First submarines of the Royal Navy

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|13

|HMS A1

19 February 1902

|HMS A13

22 June 1908

|Royal Navy's first class of British-designed submarines

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|B class

|11

|HMS B1

25 October 1904

|HMS B11

1906

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|C class

|38

|HMS C1

13 November 1905

|HMS C38

10 February 1910

|Last class of petrol powered submarines of the Royal Navy

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Diesel-electric

  • D class — 8 boats, 1908–1912
  • E class — 58 boats, 1912–1916
  • F class — 3 boats, 1913–1917
  • S class — 3 boats, 1914–1915
  • V class — 4 boats, 1914–1915
  • W class — 4 boats, 1914–1915
  • G class — 14 boats, 1915–1917
  • H class — 44 boats, 1915–1919
  • J class — 7 boats, 1915–1917
  • L class — 34 boats, 1917–1919
  • M class — 3 boats, 1917–1918
  • Nautilus class — 1 boat, 1917
  • R class — 12 boats, 1918
  • — 1 boat, 1921
  • — 9 boats 1926–29 (subclasses Oberon 1 boat, Oxley 2 boats, Odin 6 boats)
  • — 6 boats, 1929
  • — 4 boats, 1930
  • S class — 62 boats (subclasses Swordfish 4, Shark 8, Seraph 33, Subtle 17), 1931–1945
  • Thames class — 3 boats, 1932
  • — 6 boats, 1932–1938
  • T class — 52 boats (subclasses Triton 15, Tempest 15, Taciturn 22), 1937–1945
  • Undine class — 3 boats, 1937–1938
  • P611 class — 4 boats, 1940
  • Umpire class — 37 boats, 1940–1943
  • Vampire class — 22 boats, 1943–1944
  • — 16 boats, 1945–1947
  • — 2 boats, 1954–1955
  • — 4 boats, 1954–1955
  • Porpoise class — 8 boats, 1956–1959
  • — 13 boats, 1959–1966
  • — 4 boats, 1986–1992

Midget

  • — 20 boats, 1943–1944
  • — 12 boats, 1944
  • — 4 boats, 1954–1955

Rescue submersible

  • LR5 — leased to the Royal Australian Navy in 2009

Steam-electric

  • Swordfish — 1 boat, 1916–1922
  • K class — 22 boats, 1916–1919

Foreign-built

  • Archimede class — 1 boat, 1934
  • Type VIIC U-boat — 1 boat, 1941
  • Type XVII U-boat — 1 boat, 1943
  • Type XXIII U-boat — 2 boats, 1945

Nuclear powered

Land Based Prototype

  • HMS Vulcan PWR 1 (Dounreay Submarine Prototype 1) 1965–1984
  • HMS Vulcan PWR 2 (Shore Test Facility) 1987–present

Fleet

  • — one boat, 1959–1962
  • — 2 boats, 1962–1965
  • — 3 boats, 1967–1970
  • — 6 boats, 1969–1979
  • — 7 boats, 1979–1991
  • — 7 boats planned (6 commissioned of which 5 in service), 2001 to 2029
  • SSN AUKUS class - 12 boats planned, building from latter 2020s/early 2030s

Ballistic missile

  • — 4 boats, 1964–1986
  • — 4 boats, 1986–1998
  • — 4 boats planned, 2016 to mid/latter 2030s

See also

  • Royal Navy Submarine Service
  • List of submarines of the Royal Navy

References

  • MaritimeQuest Holland Class Overview
  • MaritimeQuest A Class (1902) Class Overview
  • MaritimeQuest B Class Overview
  • MaritimeQuest C Class Overview
  • MaritimeQuest A Class (1943) Class Overview
  • MaritimeQuest Trafalgar Class Overview