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

Petrol-electric +No.First ship laid downLast ship commissionedNotes5HMS Holland 1 2 October 1901HMS Holland 5 1902First submarines of the Royal Navy13HMS A1 19 February 1902HMS A13 22 June 1908Royal Navy's first class of British-designed submarinesB class 11HMS B1 25 October 1904HMS B11 1906C class38HMS C1 13 November 1905HMS C38 10 February 1910Last 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 — 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

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