This is a list of Royal Navy submarines, arranged chronologically. Submarines that are currently active and commissioned are shown below in bold.
Pre-First World War
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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
Late 1950s to late 1980s
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From HMS Porpoise Royal Navy submarines were given their own "S" pennant numbers.
A Valiant-class nuclear submarine. Whilst HMS Dreadnought had an American reactor, these were fully British-built
HMS Tireless at the North Pole
- Porpoise class (Diesel-electric hunter-killer)
- Oberon class (Diesel-electric hunter-killer)
- Oberon, commissioned/decommissioned: 1961–1986
- Onslaught, c/d: 1962–1990
- Orpheus, c/d: 1960–1990 (harbour service from 1987)
- Odin, c/d: 1962–1990
- Otter, c/d: 1962–1991
- Olympus, c/d: 1961–1989
- Oracle, c/d: 1963–1993
- Ocelot, c/d: 1964–1991
- Otus, c/d: 1963–1991
- Opossum, c/d: 1964–1993
- Opportune, c/d: 1964–1993
- Osiris, c/d: 1964–1989
- Onyx, c/d: 1967–1991
- Dreadnought (Nuclear-powered hunter-killer), commissioned/decommissioned: 1963–1980
- Valiant class (PWR1 nuclear-powered hunter-killer)
- Resolution class (PWR1 nuclear-powered ballistic missile)
- Churchill class (PWR1 nuclear-powered hunter-killer)
- Swiftsure class (PWR1 nuclear-powered hunter-killer)
- Trafalgar class (PWR1 nuclear-powered hunter-killer)
HMS Astute being launched
- Vanguard class (PWR2 nuclear-powered ballistic missile)
- Astute class (PWR2 nuclear-powered hunter-killer)
- Astute, commissioned: 2010
- Ambush, commissioned: 2013
- Artful, commissioned: 2016
- Audacious, commissioned: 2020
- Anson, commissioned: 2022
- Agamemnon, construction began: 2013/Expected commission: 2025/26
- Achilles, steel cut/Expected commission: 2029
- Dreadnought class (PWR3 nuclear-powered ballistic missile)[1]
- Dreadnought, under construction - first elements of construction underway in 2016[2]
- Valiant, under construction
- Warspite, under construction
- King George VI, ordered