This is a list of submarine classes, sorted by country. The navies

Navy

A navy is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake- or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions...

 of 46 states operate submarines.

Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

• Raïs Hadj Mubarek class (Type 877EKM Kilo)
  Kilo class submarine
  The Kilo class is the NATO reporting name for a naval diesel-electric submarine that is made in Russia. The original version of the vessels were designated Project 877 Paltus in Russia. There is also a more advanced version, designated as Improved Kilo in the west, and Project 636 Varshavyanka in...
  
  
• Raïs Hadj Slimane class (Type 877EKM Kilo)
  Kilo class submarine
  The Kilo class is the NATO reporting name for a naval diesel-electric submarine that is made in Russia. The original version of the vessels were designated Project 877 Paltus in Russia. There is also a more advanced version, designated as Improved Kilo in the west, and Project 636 Varshavyanka in...
  
  
• 2 Project 636
  Kilo class submarine
  The Kilo class is the NATO reporting name for a naval diesel-electric submarine that is made in Russia. The original version of the vessels were designated Project 877 Paltus in Russia. There is also a more advanced version, designated as Improved Kilo in the west, and Project 636 Varshavyanka in...
  
   (in order)

Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

Armada de la República Argentina

Argentine Navy

The Navy of the Argentine Republic or Armada of the Argentine Republic is the navy of Argentina. It is one of the three branches of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic, together with the Army and the Air Force....

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• Santa Fe class (1930's built in Italy)
• Santa Cruz-class (German-built TR-1700)
• Salta-class (German-built Type 209/1200
  Type 209 submarine
  The Type 209 is a class of diesel-electric attack submarine developed exclusively for export in the late 1960s by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft of Germany...
  
  )

See also: List of ships of the Argentine Navy

Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

Royal Australian Navy

Royal Australian Navy

The Royal Australian Navy is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force. Following the Federation of Australia in 1901, the ships and resources of the separate colonial navies were integrated into a national force: the Commonwealth Naval Forces...

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• Oberon
  Oberon class submarine
  The Oberon class was a 27-boat class of British-built diesel-electric submarines based on the successful British Porpoise-class submarine....
  
   class (decommissioned)
• Collins
  Collins class submarine
  The Collins class is a class of six Australian-built diesel-electric submarines operated by the Royal Australian Navy . The Collins class takes its name from Australian Vice Admiral John Augustine Collins; all six submarines are named after significant RAN personnel who distinguished themselves in...
  
   class (Type 471)

See also: List of Royal Australian Navy ships

Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

Marinha do Brasil

Brazilian Navy

The Brazilian Navy is a branch of the Brazilian Armed Forces responsible for conducting naval operations. It is the largest navy in Latin America...

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• Humaita (1927) - (decommissioned)
• Tupi class (1937) - (decommissioned)
• Goiaz class (GUPPY III
  Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program
  The Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program was initiated by the United States Navy after World War II to improve the submerged speed, maneuverability, and endurance of its submarines....
  
  ) (decommissioned)
• Bahia class (GUPPY II
  Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program
  The Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program was initiated by the United States Navy after World War II to improve the submerged speed, maneuverability, and endurance of its submarines....
  
  ) (decommissioned)
• Humaita class (Oberon
  Oberon class submarine
  The Oberon class was a 27-boat class of British-built diesel-electric submarines based on the successful British Porpoise-class submarine....
  
  ) (decommissioned)
• Tupi class (Type 209/1400
  Type 209 submarine
  The Type 209 is a class of diesel-electric attack submarine developed exclusively for export in the late 1960s by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft of Germany...
  
  )
• Tikuna (modified Tupi class) (modified Type 209/1400
  Type 209 submarine
  The Type 209 is a class of diesel-electric attack submarine developed exclusively for export in the late 1960s by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft of Germany...
  
  )
• Scorpéne in order (with technology transference)
• SSN being developed with French help

Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

Royal Canadian Navy

Royal Canadian Navy

The history of the Royal Canadian Navy goes back to 1910, when the naval force was created as the Naval Service of Canada and renamed a year later by King George V. The Royal Canadian Navy is one of the three environmental commands of the Canadian Forces...

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• Oberon
  Oberon class submarine
  The Oberon class was a 27-boat class of British-built diesel-electric submarines based on the successful British Porpoise-class submarine....
  
  -class submarine (decommissioned after 2000)
• Victoria-class submarine - ex-RN Upholder-class
• Tench class submarine
  Tench class submarine
  Tench-class submarines were a type of submarine built for the United States Navy between 1944 and 1951. They were an evolutionary improvement over the Gato and Balao classes, only about 35 to 40 tons larger, but more strongly built and with a slightly improved internal layout...
  
   (decommissioned); built for United States Navy and retired 1974
• Balao class submarine
  Balao class submarine
  The Balao class was a successful design of United States Navy submarine used during World War II, and with 122 units built, the largest class of submarines in the United States Navy. An improvement on the earlier Gato class, the boats had slight internal differences...
  
   (decommissioned); built for United States Navy
• British H class submarine
  British H class submarine
  The British H class submarines were Holland 602 type submarines used by the Royal Navy. The submarines constructed for the British Royal Navy between 1915 and 1919 were designed and built in response to German boats which mined British waters and sank coastal shipping with ease due to their small...
  
   (decommissioned and scrapped 1920s); built in United States
• CC class submarine
  CC class submarine
  The CC class submarine was the first class of submarines used by the Royal Canadian Navy.They were originally purchased by the province of British Columbia from a shipbuilder in Seattle, Washington, which had built the submarines for the Chilean Navy....
  
   (decommissioned); built in United States for Chilean Navy and sold to British Columbia; scrapped in 1920s

Captured and recommissioned German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 U-boats:

• Captured and recommissioned German U-boats - German Type IX submarine
  German Type IX submarine
  The Type IX U-boat was designed by Germany in 1935 and 1936 as a large ocean-going submarine for sustained operations far from the home support facilities. Type IX boats were briefly used for patrols off the eastern United States in an attempt to disrupt the stream of troops and supplies bound for...
  
  s German submarine U-190 and German submarine U-889

See also: List of ships of the Canadian Navy

Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

• Capitan O'Brien class
  Capitan O'Brien class submarine
  The Capitan O'Brien class were three submarines built for the Chilean Navy in the late 1920s. They were similar to the contemporary British Odin class submarines, but mounted a larger 4.7 inch deck gun and were slightly smaller.-Ships:...
  
   - built in Britain in late 1920s
• O'Brien class (Oberon
  Oberon class submarine
  The Oberon class was a 27-boat class of British-built diesel-electric submarines based on the successful British Porpoise-class submarine....
  
  ) (decommissioned)
• Thomson class (Type 209/1400
  Type 209 submarine
  The Type 209 is a class of diesel-electric attack submarine developed exclusively for export in the late 1960s by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft of Germany...
  
  ) (upgraded)
• O'Higgins class (Scorpène
  Scorpène class submarine
  Scorpène class submarines are a class of diesel-electric attack submarine jointly developed by the French DCN and the Spanish company Navantia and now by DCNS. It features diesel propulsion and an additional air-independent propulsion ....
  
  )

People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

People's Liberation Army Navy

People's Liberation Army Navy

The People's Liberation Army Navy is the naval branch of the People's Liberation Army , the military of the People's Republic of China. Until the early 1990s, the navy performed a subordinate role to the PLA Land Forces. Since then, it has undergone rapid modernisation...

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• Type 03 class (Whiskey
  Whiskey class submarine
  Whiskey-class submarines are a class of naval submarines that the Soviet Union built in the early Cold War period.-Design:...
  
  ) (decommissioned)
• Type 031 class (Golf
  Golf class submarine
  Project 629, also known by the NATO reporting name of Golf class, were diesel electric ballistic missile submarines of the Soviet Navy. They were designed after six Zulu class submarines were successfully modified to carry and launch Scud missiles...
  
  ) (SSB)
• Type 033 class (Romeo
  Romeo class submarine
  The Romeo class is a class of Soviet diesel-electric submarine, built in 1950s. The origin of the Romeo class can be traced to the World War II German Type XXI Elektroboot U-boat. At the end of World War II, the Soviets obtained several Type XXIs, from which they were able to obtain certain key...
  
  )
• Wuhan class (Type 033G, license built Romeo
  Romeo class submarine
  The Romeo class is a class of Soviet diesel-electric submarine, built in 1950s. The origin of the Romeo class can be traced to the World War II German Type XXI Elektroboot U-boat. At the end of World War II, the Soviets obtained several Type XXIs, from which they were able to obtain certain key...
  
  )
• Ming class (Type 035/based on Romeo
  Romeo class submarine
  The Romeo class is a class of Soviet diesel-electric submarine, built in 1950s. The origin of the Romeo class can be traced to the World War II German Type XXI Elektroboot U-boat. At the end of World War II, the Soviets obtained several Type XXIs, from which they were able to obtain certain key...
  
  )
• Kilo
  Kilo class submarine
  The Kilo class is the NATO reporting name for a naval diesel-electric submarine that is made in Russia. The original version of the vessels were designated Project 877 Paltus in Russia. There is also a more advanced version, designated as Improved Kilo in the west, and Project 636 Varshavyanka in...
  
   class
• Song
  Song class submarine
  The Type 039 submarine is a class of diesel-electric submarines of the People's Liberation Army Navy...
  
   class (Type 039)
• Yuan
  Yuan class submarine
  The Type 041 submarine is a class of diesel-electric submarine in the People's Liberation Army Navy. This class was first launched at Wuhan Shipyard and is the successor of the Type 039...
  
   class (Type 041)
• Han class (Type 091) (SSN)
• Xia
  Xia class submarine
  The 6,500-ton Type 092 Daqingyu submarine was the first ballistic missile-carrying, nuclear-powered submarine class deployed by the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy, and the first SSBN designed and built in Asia...
  
   class (Type 092) (SSBN)
• Shang
  Type 093 submarine
  The Type 093 is a nuclear powered attack submarine class deployed by the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy. These boats are expected to replace the older Type 091 SSNs currently in service...
  
   class (Type 093) (SSN)
• Jin
  Type 094 submarine
  The Type 094 is a new class of ballistic missile submarine developed by the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy. The first-of-class was constructed at Huludao Shipyard in Huludao, Liaoning Province and launched in July 2004...
  
   class (Type 094) (SSBN)

Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

• Pijao class (Type 209/1200
  Type 209 submarine
  The Type 209 is a class of diesel-electric attack submarine developed exclusively for export in the late 1960s by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft of Germany...
  
  )
• Intrepide class (Italian midget submarine Type SX 506)

Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

Royal Danish Navy

Royal Danish Navy

The Royal Danish Navy is the sea-based branch of the Danish Defence force. The RDN is mainly responsible for maritime defence and maintaining the sovereignty of Danish, Greenlandic and Faroese territorial waters...

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• D class (1926—1946)
• H class (1938—1950)
• U
  British U class submarine
  The British U class submarines were a class of 49 small submarines built just before and during the Second World War...
  
   class (1947—1959)
• V
  British V class submarine
  The British V class submarine was a class of submarines built for the Royal Navy during World War II. 42 vessels were ordered to this design, all to be built by Vickers-Armstrong at either Barrow-in-Furness or at Walker-on-Tyne, but only 22 were completed...
  
   class (1947—1958)
• Delfinen
  Delfinen class submarine
  The Delfinen class submarines were the last class of submarines of the Royal Danish Navy designed and built entirely by Danish architects. The first three boats of the class were financed by Denmark...
  
   class (1961—1990)
• Narhvalen class (Type 205
  Type 205 submarine
  The Type 205 was a class of diesel-electric German hunter-killer U-boat submarines. They were single-hull vessels optimized for the use in the shallow Baltic Sea. The Type 205 is a direct evolution of the Type 201 class with lengthened hull, new machinery and sensors...
  
  ) (1970—2004)
• Tumleren class (Kobben/Type 207
  Kobben class submarine
  The Kobben class or Type 207 is a version of the German Type 205 submarine customized for use by the Royal Norwegian Navy.- History :...
  
  ) (1989—2004)
• Kronborg class (Näcken
  Näcken class submarine
  The Näcken class submarines, also known as the A14 type, were built for the Swedish Navy in the late 1970s. The boats were authorised in 1972 and the programme was completed in 1981. All boats were built by Kockums in Karlskrona. The boats had a teardrop hull and diving depth was 150m...
  
  ) (2001—2004)

See also: Danish Submarines 1909-2004 @ Danish Naval History

Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

Kalev class

Kalev class submarine

The Kalev Class consisted of two mine laying submarines built for the Estonian Navy.-Development history:The newly independent Republic of Estonia followed the Finnish naval armament program and the common top secret defense cooperation in acquiring submarines. Unlike the German designed Finnish...

 mine laying

Minelayer

Minelaying is the act of deploying explosive mines. Historically this has been carried out by ships, submarines and aircraft. Additionally, since World War I the term minelayer refers specifically to a naval ship used for deploying naval mines...

 submarines

Estonian Navy

Estonian Navy

The Merevägi is the navy of Republic of Estonia and is part of the unified Kaitsevägi .In total, there are about four commissioned ships in the Estonian Navy, including three auxiliary ships; the displacement of the navy is under 10,000 tonnes making it one of the smallest navies in the world...

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• EML Kalev
  EML Kalev
  EML Kalev was one of two submarines of the Republic of Estonia launched in 1936 at Vickers and Armstrongs Ltd. in England. Her twin sister Lembit survived the Second World War and is the oldest submarine still afloat in the world today.-History:...
  
  
• EML Lembit
  EML Lembit
  EML Lembit is one of two Kalev class mine-laying submarines built for the Republic of Estonia and served in Estonian and Soviet Navy. She was launched in 1936 at Vickers and Armstrongs Ltd. in Great Britain, and now she is a museum ship in Tallinn...
  
  

Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

Finnish Navy

Finnish Navy

The Finnish Navy is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces. The Navy employs 2,300 people and about 4,300 conscripts are trained each year. Finnish Navy vessels are given the ship prefix "FNS" simply short for "Finnish Navy Ship"...

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• Vesikko (World War II)
• Saukko (World War II)
• Vetehinen
  Vetehinen class submarine
  The Vetehinen class submarine was a Finnish 500 tonne submarine class of three vessels that was designed and built in the 1920s and early 1930s. The Vetehinen class served in the Finnish Navy during World War II...
  
   (World War II)

France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

French Navy

French Navy

The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...

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Conventional
Early Submarines:

• Plongeur
  Plongeur
  Plongeur was a French submarine launched on 16 April 1863. She was the first submarine in the world to be propelled by mechanical power....
  
  
• Gymnote
  Gymnote
  The Gymnote was one of the world's first all-electric submarines.Launched on 24 September 1888, she was developed in France following early experiments by Dupuy de Lôme, and, after his death, by Gustave Zédé and Arthur Krebs, who completed the project...
  
   (Q1)
• Gustave Zédé (Q2)
• Morse (Q3)
• Narval (Q4)
• Sirène class
• Farfadet class
• Morse class
• Naïade class

First World War:

• Aigrette class
• Émeraude class
• Circé class
• Guèpe class
• Pluviose class
• Archimède class
  Archimede class submarine
  The Archimede class were a group of submarines built for the Italian Navy in the early 1930s. The boats fought in the Spanish Civil War and in World War II...
  
  
• Charles Brun (Q89)
• Mariotte
• Brumaire class
• Amiral Bourgois (Q82)
• Clorinde class
• Gustave Zédé class
• Amphitrite class
• Bellone class
• Dupuy de Lôme class
• Diane class
• Armide class
• Joessel class

Inter-war:

• O'Byrne class
• Maurice Callot class
• Pierre Chailley class

Second World War:

• 600 and 630 tonnes classes
  • Sirène class
  • Ariane class
  • Circé class
  • Argonaute class
  • Orion class
  • Diane class
• Requin class
• Saphir class
• Redoutable class
  Le Redoutable class submarine (1931)
  The Redoutable class submarines were ocean-going submarines of the French Navy during the Second World War. They were officially called "Long patrol submarines" , or "Type 1 submarines"...
  
   (oceanic submarines)
• Surcouf class
  Surcouf (N N 3)
  Surcouf was a French submarine ordered to be built in December 1927, launched on 18 October 1929, and commissioned in May 1934. Surcouf—named after the French privateer Robert Surcouf—was the largest submarine ever built until surpassed by the Japanese I-400s. Her short wartime career was marked...
  
   (submarine cruiser)
• Minerve class
  Minerve class submarine
  The Minerve class submarines were a class of submarines built for the French Navy prior to World War II. The class was based on a French Admiralty design.-Submarines of the class:* Minerve, joined the Free French Navy...
  
  
• Aurore class
  Aurore class submarine
  The Aurore class was a class of coastal submarines designed for the French Navy. Some of the ships were captured by Nazi Germany after the Fall of France, most of them in an unfinished state....
  
   (coastal submarines)
• Morillot class
• Émeraude class
• Phénix class
• British U class submarine
  British U class submarine
  The British U class submarines were a class of 49 small submarines built just before and during the Second World War...
  
   (transferred to the FNFL)

Cold War:

• Aréthuse class
  Aréthuse class submarine
  The Aréthuse class were submarines built for the French Navy in the 1950s. They were designed as hunter killer submarines for anti-submarine warfare and were referred to as Sous-marins de Chasse by the Marine Nationale. These submarines had advanced sensors and were very quiet. They were influenced...
  
   (decommissioned)
• Narval class (decommissioned)
• Daphné
  Daphne class submarine
  The Daphné class was a type of diesel-electric patrol submarines built in France between 1958 and 1970 for the French Navy and for export.-History:...
  
   class (decommissioned)
• Gymnote
  Gymnote (S655)
  Gymnote was an experimental submarine of the French Navy. She was a trials submarine for Submarine-launched ballistic missiles and powered by diesel electric engines...
  
   (S655)
• Agosta
  Agosta 90B class submarine
  The Agosta class submarines are French diesel attack submarines used by Spain, Pakistan and formerly by France. The French Navy grouped this model of submarine in their most capable class as an océanique, meaning "ocean-going." A modernised version built for Pakistan, the Agosta 90B, has a crew of...
  
   class (decommissioned in French service)

Nuclear:

• Q244
  Gymnote (S655)
  Gymnote was an experimental submarine of the French Navy. She was a trials submarine for Submarine-launched ballistic missiles and powered by diesel electric engines...
  
  
• Le Redoutable-class (SSBN) (decommissioned)
• Rubis
  Rubis class submarine
  The Rubis type is a class of first-generation nuclear attack submarines of the French Navy. They are the most compact nuclear attack submarines to date.All submarines of the class are named after gemstones.-History:...
  
   class (SSN)
• Inflexible class (SSBN) (upgraded Redoutable)
• Le Triomphant-class (SSBN)
• Barracuda
  Barracuda class submarines
  The Barracuda class is a planned nuclear attack submarine class of the French Navy, designed by the French shipbuilder DCNS to replace the Rubis-class submarines....
  
   class (SSN) (planned for 2012)

Export Models:

• Scorpène
  Scorpène class submarine
  Scorpène class submarines are a class of diesel-electric attack submarine jointly developed by the French DCN and the Spanish company Navantia and now by DCNS. It features diesel propulsion and an additional air-independent propulsion ....
  
   class
• SMX-23 class submarine
• Andrasta class submarine
  Andrasta class submarine
  Andrastra is a submarine design concept announced by the French shipbuilder DCNS in 2008. A development of the Scorpene class and based on the previous SMX-23 concept, it is a smaller vessel optimised for shallow water operations...
  
  

Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

Kriegsmarine

Kriegsmarine

The Kriegsmarine was the name of the German Navy during the Nazi regime . It superseded the Kaiserliche Marine of World War I and the post-war Reichsmarine. The Kriegsmarine was one of three official branches of the Wehrmacht, the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany.The Kriegsmarine grew rapidly...

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• Type I U-boat
• Type II U-boat
• Type VII U-boat
• Type IX U-boat
• Type X U-boat
• Type XIV U-boat
• Type XVII U-boat
• Type XVIII U-boat
• Type XXI U-boat
• Type XXIII U-boat

Modern German Navy

German Navy

The German Navy is the navy of Germany and is part of the unified Bundeswehr .The German Navy traces its roots back to the Imperial Fleet of the revolutionary era of 1848 – 52 and more directly to the Prussian Navy, which later evolved into the Northern German Federal Navy...

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• Type 240 class (Type XXXIII) (decommissioned)
• Type 241 class (Type XXI) (decommissioned)
• Type 201
  Type 201 submarine
  The Type 201 was Germany's first class of military submarines built after World War II. They were built out of amagnetic steel to counter the threat of magnetic naval mines...
  
   class (decommissioned)
• Type 202
  Type 202 submarine
  The Type 202 was a short lived class of German submarines. Design of these very small submarines started in 1957 by Ingenieurkontor Lübeck . It was intended to build 40 Type 202 mini submarines with a six man crew but technical difficulties and doubts about their usefulness reduced them to three,...
  
   class (decommissioned)
• Type 205
  Type 205 submarine
  The Type 205 was a class of diesel-electric German hunter-killer U-boat submarines. They were single-hull vessels optimized for the use in the shallow Baltic Sea. The Type 205 is a direct evolution of the Type 201 class with lengthened hull, new machinery and sensors...
  
   class (decommissioned)
• Type 206A
  Type 206 submarine
  The Type 206 is a class of diesel-electric submarines developed by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft . Its design is based on the preceding Type 205 submarine class. These small and agile submarines were built during the Cold War to operate in the shallow Baltic Sea and attack Warsaw Pact shipping if...
  
   class (decommissioned)
• Type 212A
  Type 212 submarine
  The German Type 212 class, also Italian Todaro class, is a highly advanced design of non-nuclear submarine developed by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG and Fincantieri S.p.a. for the German and Italian Navy. It features diesel propulsion and an additional air-independent propulsion system using...
  
   class

Export Models:

• Gal
  Gal class submarine
  The Type 540 Gal Class submarine is a slightly modified variant of the German HDW Type 206 submarine class , modified for Israeli requirements. The Gal class submarines were built to Israeli specifications as the Vickers shipyards Type 540 at Barrow in Furness in the UK rather than Germany for...
  
   class (design only)
• Type 207 class (Kobben
  Kobben class submarine
  The Kobben class or Type 207 is a version of the German Type 205 submarine customized for use by the Royal Norwegian Navy.- History :...
  
  )
• Type 209
  Type 209 submarine
  The Type 209 is a class of diesel-electric attack submarine developed exclusively for export in the late 1960s by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft of Germany...
  
   class
• TR-1700 class
• Type 210 class (Ula
  Ula class submarine
  The Ula class is a Norwegian submarine type which was assembled in Germany in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The class, consisting of 6 vessels, is currently the only submarine type in service with the Royal Norwegian Navy.-History:...
  
  )
• Dolphin
  Dolphin class submarine
  The Type 800 Dolphin class is a diesel-electric submarine developed and constructed by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG , Germany for the Israeli Navy. It is based on the export-only German 209 class submarines, but modified and reduced and is thus not seen as a member of the 209 family...
  
   class
• Type 214
  Type 214 submarine
  The Type 214 is a diesel-electric submarine developed by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft GmbH . It features diesel propulsion with an air-independent propulsion system using Siemens polymer electrolyte membrane hydrogen fuel cells...
  
   class

Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

Royal Hellenic Navy

• Katsonis class submarine
  Katsonis class submarine
  The Katsonis class was a French-built class of two submarines for the Hellenic Navy, serving from 1927–28 until the Second World War. The ships of the class were the first new submarines acquired by Greece after the First World War....
  
  
• Proteus class submarine

Greek Navy:

• Glavkos class (Type 209/1100
  Type 209 submarine
  The Type 209 is a class of diesel-electric attack submarine developed exclusively for export in the late 1960s by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft of Germany...
  
  )
• Poseidon class (Type 209/1200
  Type 209 submarine
  The Type 209 is a class of diesel-electric attack submarine developed exclusively for export in the late 1960s by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft of Germany...
  
  )
• Katsonis class (Type 214
  Type 214 submarine
  The Type 214 is a diesel-electric submarine developed by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft GmbH . It features diesel propulsion with an air-independent propulsion system using Siemens polymer electrolyte membrane hydrogen fuel cells...
  
  ) (building)

India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

Indian Navy

Indian Navy

The Indian Navy is the naval branch of the armed forces of India. The President of India serves as the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. The Chief of Naval Staff , usually a four-star officer in the rank of Admiral, commands the Navy...

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• Foxtrot Class
  Foxtrot class submarine
  The Foxtrot class was the NATO reporting name of a class of diesel-electric patrol submarines that were built in the Soviet Union. The Soviet designation of this class was Project 641....
  
  
• Shishumar (Type 209) Class
  Shishumar (Type 209) Class
  The Shishumar class vessels are diesel-electric submarines, currently in active service with the Indian Navy.These submarines are a lengthier and heavier Indian variant of the Type 209 submarines developed by the German yard Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft under the internal designation Type 1500.The...
  
  
• Sindhughosh (Kilo) Class
  Sindhughosh (Kilo) Class
  Sindhughosh class submarines are Indian variants of the Kilo class diesel-electric submarines in active service with the Indian Navy. Their names are in Sanskrit, but in their Roman-alphabet forms sometimes a final short -a is dropped....
  
  
• Scorpène Class
  Scorpène class submarine
  Scorpène class submarines are a class of diesel-electric attack submarine jointly developed by the French DCN and the Spanish company Navantia and now by DCNS. It features diesel propulsion and an additional air-independent propulsion ....
  
  
• Akula Class
  Akula class submarine
  Project 971 Щука-Б , is a nuclear-powered attack submarine first deployed by the Soviet Navy in 1986...
  
  . Indian navy is paying $2 billion for the completion of two submarines. The agreement was signed in late 2005 in Moscow. India will receive these submarines from late 2006 to late 2007. India will lease them until a projected 5 to 6 ATV indigenous submarines are manufactured. The Indians have a lease/ purchase deal.
• Arihant Class is a Nuclear Powered
  Nuclear navy
  Nuclear navy, or nuclear powered navy consists of ships powered by relatively small onboard nuclear reactors known as naval reactors. The concept was revolutionary for naval warfare when first proposed, as it meant that these vessels did not need to stop for fuel like their conventional...
  
   Ballistic Missile Submarine
  Ballistic missile submarine
  A ballistic missile submarine is a submarine equipped to launch ballistic missiles .-Description:Ballistic missile submarines are larger than any other type of submarine, in order to accommodate SLBMs such as the Russian R-29 or the American Trident...
  
   being constructed by India as a part of the Indian Navy's Advanced Technology Vessel (ATV) Project and is expected to be commissioned by 2011.

Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

Indonesian Navy

Indonesian Navy

The role of the Indonesian Navy is to patrol of Indonesia's immense coastline, to ensure safeguard the territorial waters and Exclusive Economic Zone , to protect Indonesia's maritime strategic interests, to protect the islands surrounded Indonesia and to defend against seaborne threats. The TNI...

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• Whiskey
  Whiskey class submarine
  Whiskey-class submarines are a class of naval submarines that the Soviet Union built in the early Cold War period.-Design:...
  
   decommissioned
• Cakra class (Type 209/1300
  Type 209 submarine
  The Type 209 is a class of diesel-electric attack submarine developed exclusively for export in the late 1960s by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft of Germany...
  
  )
• Kilo
  Kilo class submarine
  The Kilo class is the NATO reporting name for a naval diesel-electric submarine that is made in Russia. The original version of the vessels were designated Project 877 Paltus in Russia. There is also a more advanced version, designated as Improved Kilo in the west, and Project 636 Varshavyanka in...
  
   class (planned)

Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

Iranian Navy:

• Tareq class (Kilo
  Kilo class submarine
  The Kilo class is the NATO reporting name for a naval diesel-electric submarine that is made in Russia. The original version of the vessels were designated Project 877 Paltus in Russia. There is also a more advanced version, designated as Improved Kilo in the west, and Project 636 Varshavyanka in...
  
  )
• SSI
• Ghadir class
• Ghaaem class
• Nahang class
• Yugo
  Yugo class submarine
  The Yugo class submarine is a class of four midget submarines used primarily for infiltration and espionage by North Korea. The class is so named because it was built to plans supplied to North Korea by Yugoslavia in 1965. This class is actually a family of midget submarines for that not all are...
  
   class

Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

Israeli Navy:

• Gal
  Gal class submarine
  The Type 540 Gal Class submarine is a slightly modified variant of the German HDW Type 206 submarine class , modified for Israeli requirements. The Gal class submarines were built to Israeli specifications as the Vickers shipyards Type 540 at Barrow in Furness in the UK rather than Germany for...
  
   class
• Dolphin
  Dolphin class submarine
  The Type 800 Dolphin class is a diesel-electric submarine developed and constructed by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG , Germany for the Israeli Navy. It is based on the export-only German 209 class submarines, but modified and reduced and is thus not seen as a member of the 209 family...
  
   class

Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

Regia Marina

Regia Marina

The Regia Marina dates from the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 after Italian unification...

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• Balilla
  Balilla class submarine
  The Balilla-class were the first submarines to be built for the Italian navy following the end of World War I. They were large ocean-going cruiser submarines designed to operate in the Indian Ocean based in Italy's East African colonies. The design was double-hulled and based on the German Type UE...
  
   class
• Medusa class
• Laurenti class
• Cavallini class
• Archimede
  Archimede class submarine
  The Archimede class were a group of submarines built for the Italian Navy in the early 1930s. The boats fought in the Spanish Civil War and in World War II...
  
   class
• 600 Serie Adua
  600-Serie Adua class submarine
  The Italian Adua-class submarine was the fourth subclass of the 600 Series of coastal submarines of the Regia Marina that served during World War II....
  
   class submarine
• Marcello
  Marcello class submarine
  The Marcello-class was a class of eleven submarines built by CRDA in Trieste for the Royal Italian Navy . The submarines were built from 1938 to 1939, and all eleven served in the Mediterranean at the start of the Second World War. After s 1940 sinking, the remaining boats were transferred to the...
  
   class
• Marconi
  Marconi class submarine
  The Marconi-class was a class of six submarines built for the Royal Italian Navy . The submarines were all launched between 1939 and 1940, and all but one, , were lost in the Atlantic during the Second World War....
  
   class
• Fieramosca
  Italian submarine Ettore Fieramosca
  The Ettore Fieramosca was an Italian submarine which served with the Regia Marina in World War II. She was named after Ettore Fieramosca an Italian condottiero of the 16th Century.-Design:...
  
   class
• Glauco
  Glauco class submarine
  The Glauco-class was a class of two submarines built by CRDA in Trieste for the Royal Italian Navy . The submarines had initially been ordered by the Portuguese government in 1931, but were finished for the Regia Marina when Portugal cancelled the order. Both boats were launched and commissioned in...
  
   class
• Brin
  Brin class submarine
  The Brin-class submarines were five Italian submarines that served in the Regia Marina during World War II. All ships were built by Tosi. Two boats were replacements for Archimede-class submarines secretly transferred to the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. The class were...
  
   class
• Foca
  Foca class submarine
  The Foca-class were a group of three submarines built for the Italian Navy between 1936 and 1938, intended primarily for mine-laying operations. The lead ship Foca was lost on October 1940 while laying mines in the Haifa harbor...
  
   class

Marina Militare

Marina Militare

The Italian Navy is the navy of the Italian Republic. It is one of the four branches of military forces of Italy; formed in 1946, from what remained of the Regia Marina . As of 2008, the Italian Navy had 35,200 active personnel with 180 commissioned ships, 19 Floating Docks, and 123 aircraft...

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• Toti
  Toti class submarine
  The Toti class were submarines built for the Italian Navy in the 1960s. They were the first submarines designed and built in Italy since World War II. These boats were small and designed as "hunter killer" anti-submarine submarines...
  
   class (decommissioned)
• Nazario Sauro
  Sauro class submarine
  The Nazario Sauro class are submarines operated by the Italian Navy. All boats were built by Fincantieri in Monfalcone. There are three sub groups built in four batches:* Nazario Sauro class :...
  
   class
• Salvatore Pelosi class (improved Sauro
  Sauro class submarine
  The Nazario Sauro class are submarines operated by the Italian Navy. All boats were built by Fincantieri in Monfalcone. There are three sub groups built in four batches:* Nazario Sauro class :...
  
  )
• Primo Longobardo class (improved Pelosi)
• Salvatore Todaro class (Type 212A
  Type 212 submarine
  The German Type 212 class, also Italian Todaro class, is a highly advanced design of non-nuclear submarine developed by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG and Fincantieri S.p.a. for the German and Italian Navy. It features diesel propulsion and an additional air-independent propulsion system using...
  
  )

Imperial Japanese Navy

Imperial Japanese Navy

The Imperial Japanese Navy was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1869 until 1947, when it was dissolved following Japan's constitutional renunciation of the use of force as a means of settling international disputes...

 

• Ko-hyoteki
  Ko-hyoteki class submarine
  The class was a class of Japanese midget submarines used during World War II. They had hull numbers but no names. For simplicity, they are most often referred to by the hull number of the mother submarine...
  
   class submarine (midget)
• KD1 class
• KD2 class
• KD3 class
• KD4 class
• KD5 class
• KD6 class
• KD7 class
• J1
  J1 type submarine
  The Type J1 submarines were large cruiser submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy.Four boats were built between 1926 and 1929.These boats, based on the KD2 and U-139 designs, were of a junsen, or cruiser, type with an impressive range of 24,000 nm...
  
   class
• J2 class
• J3 class
• C1 class
• C2 class
• C3
  C3 type submarine
  Type C3 submarines were operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy, designed and built by Mitsubishi Corporation, between 1943 and 1944, as cargo carriers....
  
   class
• A1
  A1 type submarine
  A1 Type submarines were submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, equipped with an aircraft. The design was an adaptation of the J3 Type design, with the hangar opening forward of the conning tower....
  
   class
• A2
  A2 type submarine
  The Type A2 submarine was a single class of submarine in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, consisting of one boat, I-12, equipped with an aircraft. The design was similar to the earlier Type A1 submarine, except for the A2's having weaker engines...
  
   class
• A Modified
  Type AM Japanese submarine
  The AM type submarine was a large seaplane-carrying submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy, with a hangar space for 2 aircraft. These giant submarines were originally of the A2 type, meant to act as command boats for groups of submarines, but their design was revised after construction started so...
  
   class
• B1
  B1 type submarine
  The Type B1 submarine were the most numerous submarine class of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II...
  
   class (I-15 series)
• B2 class
• B3 class
• Sen Toku
  I-400 class submarine
  The Imperial Japanese Navy submarines were the largest submarines of World War II and remained the largest ever built until the construction of nuclear ballistic missile submarines in the 1960s. They were submarine aircraft carriers able to carry three Aichi M6A Seiran aircraft underwater to their...
  
   class (aka I-400)
• Kaichu class
• Kaisho class
• Sen Taka'
  I-200 class submarine
  The were submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. These submarines were of advanced design, built for high underwater speed, and were known as or...
  
   class (aka I-200)
• KRS class
• D1 class
• D2 class
• Sen Ho class
• Sen Ho Sho class
• LA class

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

The , or JMSDF, is the naval branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, tasked with the naval defense of Japan. It was formed following the dissolution of the Imperial Japanese Navy after World War II....

 

• United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   Gato
  Gato class submarine
  The United States Navy Gato class submarine formed the core of the submarine service that was largely responsible for the destruction of the Japanese merchant marine and a large portion of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II...
  
  -class:Kuroshio was commissioned on August 15, 1955 and stricken on March 31, 1966. The first Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force submarine.
• Oyashio class (old): A single unit, launched on May 25, 1959 and stricken on September 30, 1976. The first indigenous submarine of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force. Displacement 1139 t surfaced, 1420t when submerged, armament 4x533 mm
  Millimetre
  The millimetre is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousandth of a metre, which is the SI base unit of length....
  
   bow torpedo tube
  Torpedo tube
  A torpedo tube is a device for launching torpedoes. There are two main types of torpedo tube: underwater tubes fitted to submarines and some surface ships, and deck-mounted units installed aboard surface vessels...
  
  s, complement 65.
• Hayashio
  Hayashio class submarine
  Hayashio class submarine was the successor of the Oyashio, and the predecessor of the Natsushio-class submarine.-Boats:...
  
   class
• Natsushio
  Natsushio class submarine
  The Natsushio-class submarines were significantly smaller than the next generation Japanese submarines, the Ōshio, and the Natsushio-class submarines were the development of the Hayashio-class submarines. Also, Natsushio-class is one of the hunter-killer submarine of JMSDF. However, the JMSDF did...
  
   class
• Oshio
  Oshio class submarine
  JDS Ōshio was in service with Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force. The Ōshio was planned and built to replace the aging Kuroshio.-Boat:...
  
   class
• Uzushio
  Uzushio class submarine
  The Uzushio class submarine was a class of submarine, in service with Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force which was the first generation of the teardrop type submarine that values the underwater performance again of the conventional type ship type to the Asashio class submarine. 7 from 1967...
  
   class
• Yushio
  Yushio class submarine
  The Yūshio was a Japanese diesel-electric submarine class operated by the JMSDF. It was a second generation submarine, a development of the Uzushio class submarine, incorporating a teardrop hull, with a resulting increase in underwater performance on the Uzushio class submarine. Ten were built...
  
   class
• Harushio
  Harushio class submarine
  The Harushio is a Japanese diesel-electric submarine class operated by the JMSDF. The design is an evolution from the Yūshio class being slightly larger and with better noise reduction...
  
   class
• Asashio class (modified Harushio to test Stirling AIP System)
• Oyashio
  Oyashio class submarine
  The Oyashio is a class of Japanese diesel-electric submarine operated by the JMSDF. The submarines entered service in the late 1990s. The submarines are larger than the earlier Harushio class submarines, to provide space for a flank sonar array.-Boats:...
  
   class
• Sōryū
  Soryu class submarine
  The Sōryū class submarine or 16SS is a new class of diesel-electric submarine being built in Japan for use by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force...
  
   class

Republic of Korea

Republic of Korea Navy

Republic of Korea Navy

The Republic of Korea Navy or the ROK Navy is the branch of the South Korean armed forces responsible for conducting naval operations and amphibious landing operations. The ROK Navy includes the Republic of Korea Marine Corps, which is a quasi-autonomous organization...

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• Chang Bogo class (Type 209
  Type 209 submarine
  The Type 209 is a class of diesel-electric attack submarine developed exclusively for export in the late 1960s by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft of Germany...
  
  )
• Son Won-il class (Type 214
  Type 214 submarine
  The Type 214 is a diesel-electric submarine developed by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft GmbH . It features diesel propulsion with an air-independent propulsion system using Siemens polymer electrolyte membrane hydrogen fuel cells...
  
  )

North Korea

North Korea

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...

Korean People's Army

Korean People's Army

The Korean People's Army , also known as the Inmin Gun, are the military forces of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Kim Jong-il is the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army and Chairman of the National Defence Commission...

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• Whiskey
  Whiskey class submarine
  Whiskey-class submarines are a class of naval submarines that the Soviet Union built in the early Cold War period.-Design:...
  
   class (decommissioned?)
• Romeo
  Romeo class submarine
  The Romeo class is a class of Soviet diesel-electric submarine, built in 1950s. The origin of the Romeo class can be traced to the World War II German Type XXI Elektroboot U-boat. At the end of World War II, the Soviets obtained several Type XXIs, from which they were able to obtain certain key...
  
   class
• Sang-O
  Sang-O class submarine
  The Sang-O class submarines are in use by North Korea, and are the country's largest home-built submarines. A single unit was captured by the Republic of Korea Navy after it ran aground on 18 September 1996 in the 1996 Gangneung submarine infiltration incident...
  
   class
• Yugo
  Yugo class submarine
  The Yugo class submarine is a class of four midget submarines used primarily for infiltration and espionage by North Korea. The class is so named because it was built to plans supplied to North Korea by Yugoslavia in 1965. This class is actually a family of midget submarines for that not all are...
  
   class (midget submarine
  Midget submarine
  A midget submarine is any submarine under 150 tons, typically operated by a crew of one or two but sometimes up to 6 or 8, with little or no on-board living accommodation...
  
  )

Malaysia

Royal Malaysian Navy

Royal Malaysian Navy

The Royal Malaysian Navy is the naval arm of Malaysian Armed Forces. All commissioned ships of the RMN have the prefix KD , which means Royal Ship.-Straits Settlement Naval Volunteer Reserve:...

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• Perdana Menteri class (Scorpène
  Scorpène class submarine
  Scorpène class submarines are a class of diesel-electric attack submarine jointly developed by the French DCN and the Spanish company Navantia and now by DCNS. It features diesel propulsion and an additional air-independent propulsion ....
  
  )

Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

See the list of submarines of the Netherlands
Royal Dutch Navy:

• K XI class
  K XI class submarine
  The K XI class was a class of three submarines, built by Fijenoord shipyard in Rotterdam for the Royal Netherlands Navy. Used for patrols in the Dutch colonial waters. The class comprised K XI, K XII and K XIII. The submarines diving depth was 60 meters. All ships were still in service at the start...
  
   class (decommissioned)
• Walrus (old) class (GUPPY IB
  Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program
  The Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program was initiated by the United States Navy after World War II to improve the submerged speed, maneuverability, and endurance of its submarines....
  
  ) (decommissioned)
• Zwaardvis (old) class (T Class
  T class submarine
  Two classes of submarine are known as the T class:* The AA-1 class of three experimental submarines of the United States Navy is also known as the T class.* The T class of 55 submarines of the Royal Navy that served in World War II....
  
  ) (decommissioned)
• Dolfijn
  Dolfijn class submarine
  The Dolfijn class submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy are a class of four submarines, the Dolfijn, Zeehond, Potvis and Tonijn, Which were built in the late 1950s and the early 1960s...
  
   class (decommissioned)
• Potvis
  Dolfijn class submarine
  The Dolfijn class submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy are a class of four submarines, the Dolfijn, Zeehond, Potvis and Tonijn, Which were built in the late 1950s and the early 1960s...
  
   class (enhanced Dolfijn) (decommissioned)
• Zwaardvis
  Zwaardvis class submarine
  The Zwaardvis class submarine is a conventional attack submarine that replaced the Dolfijn class in the Royal Netherlands Navy. Zwaardvis is based on the U.S. Navy Barbel class with the teardrop hull design. In September 1981 the Republic of China ordered two modified Zwaardvis class submarines,...
  
   class (decommissioned)
• Walrus
  Walrus class submarine
  The Walrus-class submarine is the only submarine class currently in operation in the Royal Netherlands Navy. They have been in use since 1990 and are all named after sea mammals.-Design:...
  
   class

See also: Dutchsubmarines.com

Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

Royal Norwegian Navy

Royal Norwegian Navy

The Royal Norwegian Navy is the branch of the Norwegian Defence Force responsible for naval operations. , the RNoN consists of approximately 3,700 personnel and 70 vessels, including 5 heavy frigates, 6 submarines, 14 patrol boats, 4 minesweepers, 4 minehunters, 1 mine detection vessel, 4 support...

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• Kobben (1909-1933) One vessel purchased from Germany.
• A class
  Norwegian A class submarine
  The A class submarines were a class of three vessels of German design built by the Krupp Germania naval shipyard in Kiel, Germany from 1913 to 1914 and deployed by the Royal Norwegian Navy....
  
   (1913-1940) Three vessels bought from Germany.
• B class
  Norwegian B class submarine
  The B class submarines were a class of six vessels of the US Holland type built on licence at Karljohansvern naval shipyard in Norway from 1922 to 1929 and deployed by the Royal Norwegian Navy.-Boats:...
  
   (1922-1946) Six vessels of the U.S. Holland type built under licence in Norway.
• U class (1941-1943) One vessels given to Norway in 1941.
• V class (1949-196X) Two vessels given to Norway in 1943, after the war Norway purchased three more.
• K class
  Norwegian K class submarine
  The Norwegian K class submarines are a class of three submarines the Royal Norwegian Navy received from Germany in 1948 as Allied war spoils. They were built as the Type VIIC/41 U-boat from 1940 to 1945. The ships were named HNoMS Kya, HNoMS Kinn and HNoMS Kaura. Kaura was returned to Germany in...
  
   (1949-196x) Three vessels left in Norway by the Germans.
• Kobben / Type 207
  Kobben class submarine
  The Kobben class or Type 207 is a version of the German Type 205 submarine customized for use by the Royal Norwegian Navy.- History :...
  
   (1964-2003) Fifteen vessels purchased from Germany.
• Ula / Type 210
  Ula class submarine
  The Ula class is a Norwegian submarine type which was assembled in Germany in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The class, consisting of 6 vessels, is currently the only submarine type in service with the Royal Norwegian Navy.-History:...
  
   (1989-In use) Six vessels purchased from Germany.

Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

Pakistani Navy:

• Hangor
  PNS Hangor
  PNS Hangor was a Daphné class submarine that served in the Pakistan Navy from 1970 to 2006. She was built by France, and was a type of diesel-electric submarine class. She earned renown, when during the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War, she sank the Indian Navy's ASW frigate INS Khukri with two Homing...
  
   class (Daphne
  Daphne class submarine
  The Daphné class was a type of diesel-electric patrol submarines built in France between 1958 and 1970 for the French Navy and for export.-History:...
  
  ) (decommissioned)
• Hashmat class (Agosta 70)
• Khalid class (Agosta 90B class submarine
  Agosta 90B class submarine
  The Agosta class submarines are French diesel attack submarines used by Spain, Pakistan and formerly by France. The French Navy grouped this model of submarine in their most capable class as an océanique, meaning "ocean-going." A modernised version built for Pakistan, the Agosta 90B, has a crew of...
  
  )
• 3MG110 class (midget submarine)

Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

• Abato class (decommissioned)
• Casma class (Type 209/1200
  Type 209 submarine
  The Type 209 is a class of diesel-electric attack submarine developed exclusively for export in the late 1960s by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft of Germany...
  
  )

Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

Polish Navy

Polish Navy

The Marynarka Wojenna Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej - MW RP Polish Navy, is the branch of Republic of Poland Armed Forces responsible for naval operations...

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• Orzel
  Orzel class submarine
  The Orzeł class was a short series of modern submarines built in Dutch shipyards for the Polish Navy in the 1930s. Initially the design was to be built in the United Kingdom, but the price proposed was too high and the British Admiralty announced that building a fast submarine with over of surface...
  
   class (decommissioned)
• Wilk
  Wilk class submarine
  Wilk class submarines of the Polish Navy included three boats: ORP Wilk, ORP Ryś and ORP Żbik. They served from 1931 until 1955. The boats were built in France....
  
   class (decommissioned)
• Whiskey
  Whiskey class submarine
  Whiskey-class submarines are a class of naval submarines that the Soviet Union built in the early Cold War period.-Design:...
  
   class (decommissioned)
• Foxtrot
  Foxtrot class submarine
  The Foxtrot class was the NATO reporting name of a class of diesel-electric patrol submarines that were built in the Soviet Union. The Soviet designation of this class was Project 641....
  
   class (decommissioned)
• Kilo
  Kilo class submarine
  The Kilo class is the NATO reporting name for a naval diesel-electric submarine that is made in Russia. The original version of the vessels were designated Project 877 Paltus in Russia. There is also a more advanced version, designated as Improved Kilo in the west, and Project 636 Varshavyanka in...
  
   class
• Kobben / Type 207
  Kobben class submarine
  The Kobben class or Type 207 is a version of the German Type 205 submarine customized for use by the Royal Norwegian Navy.- History :...
  
   class

Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

Portuguese Navy

Portuguese Navy

The Portuguese Navy is the naval branch of the Portuguese Armed Forces which, in cooperation and integrated with the other branches of the Portuguese military, is charged with the military defence of Portugal....

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• Albacora
  Albacora class submarine
  The Albacora class is diesel-electric attack submarine developed for the Portuguese Navy based on the French Daphné class submarine....
  
   class (Daphne
  Daphne class submarine
  The Daphné class was a type of diesel-electric patrol submarines built in France between 1958 and 1970 for the French Navy and for export.-History:...
  
  )
• Type 209mod
  Type 209 submarine
  The Type 209 is a class of diesel-electric attack submarine developed exclusively for export in the late 1960s by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft of Germany...
  
   (planned for 2010, http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/FuelCellToday/IndustryInformation/IndustryInformationExternal/NewsDisplayArticle/0,1602,5862,00.html)

Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 (and Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

)

Soviet Navy

Soviet Navy

The Soviet Navy was the naval arm of the Soviet Armed Forces. Often referred to as the Red Fleet, the Soviet Navy would have played an instrumental role in a Warsaw Pact war with NATO, where it would have attempted to prevent naval convoys from bringing reinforcements across the Atlantic Ocean...

 and Russian Navy:

• See the list of Soviet and Russian submarine classes

Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

Republic of Singapore Navy

Republic of Singapore Navy

The Republic of Singapore Navy is the naval component of the Singapore Armed Forces , responsible for the defence of Singapore against sea-borne threats and protection of its sea lines of communications. Operating within the crowded littoral waters of the Singapore Strait, the RSN is regarded as...

:

• Challenger class (refurbished Swedish Sjöormen
  Sjöormen class submarine
  The Sjöormen class were a group of submarines built for the Swedish Navy in the late 1960s. They had a teardrop shape and were capable of diving to 150m. At the time of their deployment they were regarded as one of the most advanced non-nuclear submarine-classes in the world, incorporating many new...
  
   class)
• Archer
  Archer class submarine
  The Archer class submarines are the newest class of diesel-electric submarines in active service with the Republic of Singapore Navy . Originally launched as the Swedish Navy Västergötland class submarines HMS Hälsingland and HMS Västergötland in 1986 and 1987, the two submarines were sold to...
  
   class (originally Swedish Västergötland
  Västergötland class submarine
  The Västergötland class of diesel-electric submarines was introduced in 1987 by the Swedish Navy. The original four ships of her class, HMS Västergötland, HMS Hälsingland, HMS Södermanland and HMS Östergötland, were built between 1983 and 1988 by Kockums AB...
  
   class, upgraded to Södermanland
  Södermanland class submarine
  The Swedish Södermanland class of diesel-electric submarines consist of the HMS Södermanland and HMS Östergötland. These two submarines were originally launched as Västergötland class submarines in 1987 and 1990, and have been relaunched as a new class after extensive modernization 2003 and 2004 by...
  
   class standards) (commission planned for 2010)http://www.mindef.gov.sg/imindef/news_and_events/nr/2009/jun/16jun09_nr.html

South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

South African Navy

South African Navy

The South African Navy is the navy of the Republic of South Africa.-Formation:The South African Navy can trace its official origins back to the SA Naval Service, which was established on 1 April 1922....

:

• Maria van Riebeeck/Spear class (Daphne
  Daphne class submarine
  The Daphné class was a type of diesel-electric patrol submarines built in France between 1958 and 1970 for the French Navy and for export.-History:...
  
  )
• Heroine class Type 209/1400-mod
  Type 209 submarine
  The Type 209 is a class of diesel-electric attack submarine developed exclusively for export in the late 1960s by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft of Germany...
  
  

Spain

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

Spanish Navy

Spanish Navy

The Spanish Navy is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces, one of the oldest active naval forces in the world. The Armada is responsible for notable achievements in world history such as the discovery of Americas, the first world circumnavigation, and the discovery of a maritime path...

: http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/spain/spain164.html

• Peral class
• Isaac Peral class (Laurenti)
• A class (Holland)
• B class (Holland F-105)
• C class (Holland F-105F)
• D class
• General Mola class (Archimede
  Archimede class submarine
  The Archimede class were a group of submarines built for the Italian Navy in the early 1930s. The boats fought in the Spanish Civil War and in World War II...
  
  )
• G class (Type VII C)
• Foca
  Foca class submarine
  The Foca-class were a group of three submarines built for the Italian Navy between 1936 and 1938, intended primarily for mine-laying operations. The lead ship Foca was lost on October 1940 while laying mines in the Haifa harbor...
  
   class (Seehund)
• Tiburón class
• Almirante García de los Reyes class (Balao
  Balao class submarine
  The Balao class was a successful design of United States Navy submarine used during World War II, and with 122 units built, the largest class of submarines in the United States Navy. An improvement on the earlier Gato class, the boats had slight internal differences...
  
  )
• Serie 30 class (Guppy IIA
  Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program
  The Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program was initiated by the United States Navy after World War II to improve the submerged speed, maneuverability, and endurance of its submarines....
  
  )
• Delfín
  Delfin class submarine
  Delfin class submarine may refer to one of the following classes of submarine:* Greek Delfin class submarine, a French-built class of two submarines built for the Royal Hellenic Navy in 1910; active in the First Balkan War; both boats seized by France during the Greek National Schism in 1916 and...
  
   class (Daphne
  Daphne class submarine
  The Daphné class was a type of diesel-electric patrol submarines built in France between 1958 and 1970 for the French Navy and for export.-History:...
  
  )
• Galerna class (Agosta
  Agosta 90B class submarine
  The Agosta class submarines are French diesel attack submarines used by Spain, Pakistan and formerly by France. The French Navy grouped this model of submarine in their most capable class as an océanique, meaning "ocean-going." A modernised version built for Pakistan, the Agosta 90B, has a crew of...
  
  )
• S-80
  S-80 class
  The S-80 Class is a series of submarines of advanced technology that is currently under construction for the Spanish Navy. Initially there will be four units, with a future expansion to six, two of which are in production by the Spanish company Navantia at its factory in Cartagena...
  
   class (in construction)

Export Models:

• Gür (E) class
• Scorpene
  Scorpène class submarine
  Scorpène class submarines are a class of diesel-electric attack submarine jointly developed by the French DCN and the Spanish company Navantia and now by DCNS. It features diesel propulsion and an additional air-independent propulsion ....
  
   class

Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

Swedish Navy

Swedish Navy

The Royal Swedish Navy is the naval branch of the Swedish Armed Forces. It is composed of surface and submarine naval units – the Fleet – as well as marine units, the so-called Amphibious Corps .In Swedish, vessels of the Swedish Navy are given the prefix "HMS," short for Hans/Hennes...

:

• Hajen
  Hajen class submarine
  The Hajen class was a submarine class built by Kockums and used by the Swedish navy. The design was influenced by the German Type XXI submarine class...
  
   class
• Draken
  Draken class submarine
  The Draken class was a submarine class built for the Swedish navy 1960-1962. A total of five submarines was delivered and kept in service until the late 1980s when the more modern Näcken class submarine replaced them. Four of the boats were modernised in 1981-82...
  
   class
• Sjöormen
  Sjöormen class submarine
  The Sjöormen class were a group of submarines built for the Swedish Navy in the late 1960s. They had a teardrop shape and were capable of diving to 150m. At the time of their deployment they were regarded as one of the most advanced non-nuclear submarine-classes in the world, incorporating many new...
  
   class
• Näcken
  Näcken class submarine
  The Näcken class submarines, also known as the A14 type, were built for the Swedish Navy in the late 1970s. The boats were authorised in 1972 and the programme was completed in 1981. All boats were built by Kockums in Karlskrona. The boats had a teardrop hull and diving depth was 150m...
  
   class (Type A-14)
• Västergötland
  Västergötland class submarine
  The Västergötland class of diesel-electric submarines was introduced in 1987 by the Swedish Navy. The original four ships of her class, HMS Västergötland, HMS Hälsingland, HMS Södermanland and HMS Östergötland, were built between 1983 and 1988 by Kockums AB...
  
   class (Type A-17)
• Södermanland
  Södermanland class submarine
  The Swedish Södermanland class of diesel-electric submarines consist of the HMS Södermanland and HMS Östergötland. These two submarines were originally launched as Västergötland class submarines in 1987 and 1990, and have been relaunched as a new class after extensive modernization 2003 and 2004 by...
  
   class (upgraded Västergötland)
• Gotland
  Gotland class submarine
  In 2004, the Swedish government received a request from the United States of America to lease HMS Gotland – Swedish-flagged, commanded and manned, for a duration of one year for use in anti-submarine warfare exercises. The Swedish government granted this request in October 2004, with both...
  
   class (Type A-19)

Taiwan

Republic of China

The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...

Republic of China Navy

Republic of China Navy

The Republic of China Navy is the maritime branch of the Armed forces of the Republic of China . The ROC Navy's primary mission is to defend ROC territories and the sea lanes that surround Taiwan against a blockade, attack, or possible invasion by forces of the People's Republic of China...

• Hai Lung class (Zwaardvis class submarine
  Zwaardvis class submarine
  The Zwaardvis class submarine is a conventional attack submarine that replaced the Dolfijn class in the Royal Netherlands Navy. Zwaardvis is based on the U.S. Navy Barbel class with the teardrop hull design. In September 1981 the Republic of China ordered two modified Zwaardvis class submarines,...
  
  ) class
• Hai Shih class (Tench class
  Tench class submarine
  Tench-class submarines were a type of submarine built for the United States Navy between 1944 and 1951. They were an evolutionary improvement over the Gato and Balao classes, only about 35 to 40 tons larger, but more strongly built and with a slightly improved internal layout...
  
  ) class

Thailand

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

Royal Thai Navy

Royal Thai Navy

The Royal Thai Navy is the navy of Thailand and part of the Royal Thai Armed Forces, it was established in the late 19th century. Admiral Prince Abhakara Kiartiwongse is "The Father of Royal Thai Navy". Similar to the organizational structure of the United States, the Royal Thai Navy includes the...

• Sinsamudar class - 1938-1950

Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

Turkish Navy

Turkish Navy

The Turkish Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the Turkish Armed Forces.- Ottoman fleet after Mudros :Following the demise of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I, on November 3, 1918, the fleet commander of the Ottoman Navy, Liva Amiral Arif Pasha, ordered all flags to be...

:

• Atilay class (Type 209/1200
  Type 209 submarine
  The Type 209 is a class of diesel-electric attack submarine developed exclusively for export in the late 1960s by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft of Germany...
  
  )
• Preveze class (Type 209T1/1400
  Type 209 submarine
  The Type 209 is a class of diesel-electric attack submarine developed exclusively for export in the late 1960s by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft of Germany...
  
  )
• Gur class (Type 209T2/1400
  Type 209 submarine
  The Type 209 is a class of diesel-electric attack submarine developed exclusively for export in the late 1960s by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft of Germany...
  
  )
• Type 214TN (advanced Type 214)

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

:

• Holland class
  Holland class submarine
  The Holland-class were the first submarines built for the Royal Navy. They were built by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. The first three were designed by John Philip Holland. The Hollands were built under licence from the Holland Torpedo Boat Company/Electric Boat Company during the years 1901 to 1903...
  
  
• A class
  A class submarine
  A class submarine may refer to one of these classes of submarine:* A class submarine , a class of 13 submarines of the Royal Navy that served in World War I* Danish A class submarine, a class of six built for the Royal Danish Navy, 1911–1914...
  
  
• B class
  British B class submarine
  The B-class was a class of 11 submarines, built by Vickers in Barrow-in-Furness for the Royal Navy, and launched in 1904–06. One boat was sunk by a collision in 1912, but the remainder served in World War I. Three boats protected the transfer of the British Expeditionary Force to France in 1914,...
  
  
• C class
  British C class submarine
  The British C class submarines were the last class of petrol engined submarines of the Royal Navy and marked the end of the development of the Holland-class in the Royal Navy...
  
  
• D class
  British D class submarine
  There were plans for a further two, D9 and D10, but these were launched at Chatham Dockyard as HMS E1 and HMS E2.-See also:*Not to be confused with the United States D class submarine of 1909-1910.-Sources:...
  
  
• E class
  British E class submarine
  The British E class submarines started out as improved versions of the British D class submarine. All of the first group and some of the second group were completed before the outbreak of World War I....
  
  
• F class
  British F class submarine
  The F class submarine was built for the Royal Navy as a coastal submarine based on the doubled hulled V class submarine with very few minor improvements. The only important improvement was the addition of a stern torpedo tube...
  
  
• G class
  British G class submarine
  The Royal Navy's G-class of diesel/electric submarines were launched between 1914 and 1917, and intended for operations in the North Sea and German Bight in World War I against German U-boats. The design was based on the E-class, adopting the double hull concept, but in practice showed little...
  
  
• H class
  British H class submarine
  The British H class submarines were Holland 602 type submarines used by the Royal Navy. The submarines constructed for the British Royal Navy between 1915 and 1919 were designed and built in response to German boats which mined British waters and sank coastal shipping with ease due to their small...
  
  
• J class
  British J class submarine
  The J class of submarines was a seven submarine class developed by the Royal Navy prior to the First World War in response to claims that Germany was developing submarines that were fast enough to operate alongside surface fleets...
  
  
• L class
  British L class submarine
  The British L class submarine were originally planned under the emergency war programme as an improved version of the British E class submarine. The scale of change allowed the L class to become a separate class....
  
  
• K class
  British K class submarine
  The K class submarines were a class of steam-propelled submarines of the Royal Navy designed in 1913. Intended as large, fast vessels which had the endurance and speed to operate with the battle fleet, they gained notoriety, and the nickname of Kalamity class, for being involved in many accidents....
  
  
• M class
  British M class submarine
  The British Royal Navy M-class submarines were a small class of diesel electric submarine built during World War I. The unique feature of the class was a 12-inch gun mounted in a turret forward of the conning tower.-Background:...
  
  
• Nautilus class
  Nautilus class submarine (1917)
  HMS Nautilus was the largest submarine built for the Royal Navy at the time and the first to be given a name.Nautilus was designed in response to recommendations for an overseas submarine displacing 1,000 tons and capable of...
  
  
• R class
  British R class submarine
  The R-class submarines were a class of 12 small British diesel-electric submarines built for the Royal Navy during World War I, and were forerunners of the modern hunter-killer submarines, in that they were designed specifically to attack and sink enemy submarines, their battery capacity and hull...
  
  
• HMS X1
  HM Submarine X1
  HM Submarine X1 was conceived and designed as a submersible commerce raider for the Royal Navy; at the time of her launching she was the largest submarine in the world. The idea of a submarine cruiser had been proposed as early as 1915, but was not put into practice until 1921...
  
  
• Odin class
  Odin class submarine
  The Odin class submarine was a class of nine submarines developed and built for the Royal Navy in the 1920s. The prototype was followed by two ships originally ordered for the Royal Australian Navy, but transferred to the RN in 1931 because of the poor economic situation in Australia, and six...
  
  
• Parthian class
  Parthian class submarine
  The Parthian class submarine or P class was a class of six submarines built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. They were designed as long-range patrol submarines for the Far East. These ships were almost identical to the Odin class, the only difference being a different bow...
  
  
• Rainbow class
  Rainbow class submarine
  The Rainbow class submarine or R class was a class of four submarines built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. They were designed as long range patrol submarines for the Far East and were essentially repeats of the preceding Parthian class submarines with minor modifications...
  
  
• S class
  British S class submarine
  Two classes of submarine of the Royal Navy are known as the S class:* The S class of three submarines launched in 1914–1915 and transferred to the Regia Marina in 1915.* The S class of sixty-two submarines launched in the 1930s and 1940s....
  
  
• River class
  River class submarine
  The River class, or Thames class were a class of submarines built for the Royal Navy.They were the last attempt by the Admiralty to produce "Fleet Submarines" that is submarines fast enough to operate as part of a fleet which at the time meant being able to manage somewhere around while surfaced...
  
  
• Grampus class
  Grampus class submarine
  The Grampus-class submarines were a group of minelaying submarines built for the Royal Navy in the late 1930s. These boats are sometimes referred to as the Porpoise class from the single prototype, HMS Porpoise built in 1932. Five boats to a modified design were built between 1936 and 1938...
  
  
• T class
  British T class submarine
  The Royal Navy's T class of diesel-electric submarines was designed in the 1930s to replace the O, P and R classes. Fifty-three members of the class were built just before and during the Second World War, where they played a major role in the Royal Navy's submarine operations...
  
  
• U class
  British U class submarine
  The British U class submarines were a class of 49 small submarines built just before and during the Second World War...
  
  
• P611 class
  Oruç Reis class submarine
  The Oruç Reis class submarines were ordered by the Turkish Navy from the British company Vickers in 1939. They were similar to the British S class submarines, but slightly smaller. They had the S class machinery but only four bow torpedo tubes...
  
  
• V class
  British V class submarine
  The British V class submarine was a class of submarines built for the Royal Navy during World War II. 42 vessels were ordered to this design, all to be built by Vickers-Armstrong at either Barrow-in-Furness or at Walker-on-Tyne, but only 22 were completed...
  
  
• Amphion class
  Amphion class submarine
  |-See also:- External links :**...
  
  
• HMS Meteorite
  HMS Meteorite
  HMS Meteorite was an experimental U-boat developed in Germany, scuttled at the end of World War II, subsequently raised and commissioned into the Royal Navy. The submarine was originally commissioned into the Kriegsmarine in March 1945 as U-1407...
  
  
• Explorer class
  Explorer class submarine
  The two Explorer class submarines were experimental vessels built for the Royal Navy to test a propulsion system based on the use of highly concentrated Hydrogen peroxide and diesel fuel to achieve high underwater endurance and speeds....
  
  
• Stickleback class
  Stickleback class submarine
  The Stickleback class submarines were midget submarines of the Royal Navy initially ordered as improved versions of the older XE class submarines...
  
   (midget submarine
  Midget submarine
  A midget submarine is any submarine under 150 tons, typically operated by a crew of one or two but sometimes up to 6 or 8, with little or no on-board living accommodation...
  
  s)
• Porpoise class
  British Porpoise class submarine
  The Porpoise class was an eight-boat class of diesel-electric submarines operated by the Royal Navy. This class was originally designated patrol submarines, then attack. They were the first conventional British submarines to be built after the end of World War II...
  
   (Diesel-electric hunter-killer)
• Oberon class
  Oberon class submarine
  The Oberon class was a 27-boat class of British-built diesel-electric submarines based on the successful British Porpoise-class submarine....
  
   (Diesel-electric hunter-killer)
• Valiant class attack submarines
  Valiant class submarine
  The Valiant class were a class of nuclear-powered fleet submarines in service with the Royal Navy from the mid 1960s until 1994. They were the first fully British nuclear fleet submarine; the earlier used an American nuclear reactor...
  
  
• Resolution class ballistic missile submarines
  Resolution class submarine
  The Resolution-class submarine armed with the Polaris missile was the United Kingdom's primary nuclear deterrent from the late 1960s to 1994, when they were replaced by the Vanguard-class submarine carrying the Trident II.-Background:...
  
  
• Churchill class attack submarines
  Churchill class submarine
  The three Improved Valiant class submarines, sometimes known as the Churchill class, were nuclear powered fleet submarines which served with the Royal Navy from the 1970s until the early 1990s...
  
  
• Swiftsure class attack submarines
  Swiftsure class submarine
  The Swiftsure class were a class of nuclear-powered fleet submarines in service with the Royal Navy from the early 1970s until 2010....
  
  
• Trafalgar class attack submarines
  Trafalgar class submarine
  The Trafalgar class is a class of nuclear-powered fleet submarines in service with the Royal Navy. They are a direct follow on from the Swiftsure class and were, until the introduction of the Astute class, the Royal Navy's most advanced nuclear fleet submarines.Seven boats were built and...
  
  
• Upholder class attack submarines
  Upholder/Victoria class submarine
  The Upholder/Victoria-class submarines, also known as the Type 2400 , are diesel-electric Fleet submarines designed in the UK in the late 1970s to supplement the Royal Navy's nuclear submarine force....
  
  
• Vanguard class SSBN submarines
  Vanguard class submarine
  The Vanguard class are the Royal Navy's current nuclear ballistic missile submarines , each armed with up to 16 Trident II Submarine-launched ballistic missiles...
  
  
• Astute class attack submarines
  Astute class submarine
  The Astute-class is the latest class of nuclear-powered fleet submarines in service with the Royal Navy. The class sets a new standard for the Royal Navy in terms of weapons load, communication facilities and stealth. The boats are being constructed by BAE Systems Submarine Solutions at...
  
  

See also: List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

• Hrabri class submarine
  Hrabri class submarine
  The Hrabri class were two submarines built for the Royal Yugoslav Navy in Great Britain during the 1920's. The boats fought in World War II.-Design:The ships were designed and built by Vickers Armstrong in Britain and were based on the British L class submarine...
  
  
• Osvetnik class submarine
  Osvetnik class submarine
  The Osvetnik class were a group of submarines built in France for the Yugoslav Royal Navy.-Design:The boats were built in France to a contemporary French design and used French equipment.-Ships:...
  
  
• Sutjeska class submarine
  Sutjeska class submarine
  The Sutjeska class were a group of submarines built for the Yugoslav Navy in the late 1950's.-Design:The design was done in Yugoslavia and Soviet sensors were used...
  
  
• Sava class submarine
  Sava class submarine
  The Sava class were the last group of submarines to be completed for the Yugoslav Navy. The subs that are currently owned by Montenegro, are laid up and are for sale.-Design:...
  
  
• Heroj-class submarine
  Heroj class submarine
  The Heroj class were a group of submarines built for and operated by the Yugoslav Navy-Design:These boats were designed in Yugoslavia and were second group of indigenous submarines...
  
  
• Una-class midget submarine

External links

• Hellenic Navy's Submarine OCEANOS (S-118) 3d animation
• http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/bibs/submarine/subarticlescntry.htm
• GlobalSecurity.org
• Globaldefence.net
• Hazegray & Underway - World Navies Today
• World-Wide Inventory of active Diesels (as of 2001)