List of submarines of the Royal Navy

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

Submarines that are currently active and commissioned are shown below in bold.

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

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

A-class submarines, the first British-designed class

HMS G9 at Scapa Flow in 1917

HMS M2 with her sea plane

HMS Thorn

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

HMS Voracious in 1945

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

HMS Tireless at the North Pole

HMS Astute being launched