List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy

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

Ships of the Royal Navy

A – B – C – D – E – F – G H – I – J – K – L – M – N O – P – Q – R – S – T – U V – W – X – Y – Z

fleet aircraft carriers

escort aircraft carriers

seaplane carriers

amphibious assault shipping

battlecruisers

dreadnought battleships

pre-dreadnought battleships

ironclads

bomb vessels

corvettes and sloops

cruisers

destroyers

fireships

frigates

gun-brigs, gunboats & gunvessels

mine countermeasure vessels

monitors

patrol and attack craft

royal yachts

ships of the line

submarines

support ships

survey vessels

shore establishments

hospitals and hospital ships

air stations

aircraft wings

fleets and major commands

squadrons and flotillas

early English ships • early Scots ships

Petrol-electric

• Holland class — 5 boats, 1901–1902
• A class — 13 boats, 1902–1905
• B class — 11 boats, 1904–1906
• C class — 38 boats, 1906–1910

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
• HMS X1 — 1 boat, 1921
• Odin class — 9 boats 1926–29 (subclasses Oberon 1 boat, Oxley 2 boats, Odin 6 boats)
• Parthian class — 6 boats, 1929
• Rainbow class — 4 boats, 1930
• S class — 62 boats (subclasses Swordfish 4, Shark 8, Seraph 33, Subtle 17), 1931–1945
• Thames class — 3 boats, 1932
• Grampus class — 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
• Amphion class — 16 boats, 1945–1947
• Explorer class — 2 boats, 1954–1955
• Stickleback class — 4 boats, 1954–1955
• Porpoise class — 8 boats, 1956–1959
• Oberon class — 13 boats, 1959–1966
• Upholder class — 4 boats, 1986–1992

Midget

• X Class — 20 boats, 1943-1944
• XE Class — 6 boats, 1944
• Stickleback class — 5 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

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

• Dreadnought — one boat, 1959–1960
• Valiant class — 2 boats, 1962–1965
• Churchill class — 3 boats, 1967–1970
• Swiftsure class — 6 boats, 1969–1979
• Trafalgar class — 7 boats, 1979–1991
• Astute class — 7 boats planned, 2001–present

Ballistic missile

• Resolution class — 4 boats, 1964–1968
• Vanguard class — 4 boats, 1986–1998

See also

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

External links

• 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