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{{Short description|None}}{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}}{{Use British English|date=January 2017}}This is a list of submarine classes of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. Dates of construction given.{{Royal_Navy_ship_types}}

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!!No.!First ship laid down!Last ship commissioned!Notes

Holland	4}}|5|HMS Holland 12 October 1901|HMS Holland 51902|First submarines of the Royal Navy

A	4	1903}}|13|HMS A119 February 1902|HMS A1322 June 1908|Royal Navy's first class of British-designed submarines

British B-class submarine>B class |11|HMS B125 October 1904|HMS B111906|

British C-class submarine>C class|38|HMS C113 November 1905|HMS C3810 February 1910|Last class of petrol powered submarines of the Royal Navy

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

Midget

• {{sclass2|X|submarine|4}} — 20 boats, 1943–1944
• {{sclass2|XE|submarine|4}} — 12 boats, 1944
• {{sclass|Stickleback|submarine|4}} — 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, 1945WEB, Helgason, Guðmundur, U-2326,weblink 26 April 2016, Uboat.net, WEB, Helgason, Guðmundur, U-2353,weblink 30 April 2016, Uboat.net,

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

• {{HMS|Dreadnought|S101|2}} — one boat, 1959–1960
• {{sclass|Valiant|submarine|4}} — 2 boats, 1962–1965
• {{sclass|Churchill|submarine|4}} — 3 boats, 1967–1970
• {{sclass|Swiftsure|submarine|4}} — 6 boats, 1969–1979
• {{sclass|Trafalgar|submarine|4}} — 7 boats, 1979–1991
• {{sclass|Astute|submarine|4}} — 7 boats planned (4 in service), 2001–present

Ballistic missile

• {{sclass|Resolution|submarine|4}} — 4 boats, 1964–1986
• {{sclass|Vanguard|submarine|4}} — 4 boats, 1986–1998
• {{sclass|Dreadnought|submarine|4}}PRESS RELEASE,weblink New Successor Submarines Named, Gov.uk, 21 October 2016, 21 October 2016, — 4 boats planned, 2028 onwards

See also

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

References

{{Reflist}}

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