List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy

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

Diesel-electric

 * D class — 8 boats, 1908–1912
 * E class — 58 boats, 1912–1916
 * F class — 3 boats, 1913–1917
 * S class — 3 boats, 1914–1915
 * V class — 4 boats, 1914–1915
 * W class — 4 boats, 1914–1915
 * G class — 14 boats, 1915–1917
 * H class — 44 boats, 1915–1919
 * J class — 7 boats, 1915–1917
 * L class — 34 boats, 1917–1919
 * M class — 3 boats, 1917–1918
 * Nautilus class — 1 boat, 1917
 * R class — 12 boats, 1918
 * HMS X1 — 1 boat, 1921
 * Odin-class submarine — 9 boats 1926–29 (subclasses Oberon 1 boat, Oxley 2 boats, Odin 6 boats)
 * Parthian-class submarine — 6 boats, 1929
 * Rainbow-class submarine — 4 boats, 1930
 * S class — 62 boats (subclasses Swordfish 4, Shark 8, Seraph 33, Subtle 17), 1931–1945
 * Thames class — 3 boats, 1932
 * Grampus-class submarine — 6 boats, 1932–1938
 * T class — 52 boats (subclasses Triton 15, Tempest 15, Taciturn 22), 1937–1945
 * Undine class — 3 boats, 1937–1938
 * P611 class — 4 boats, 1940
 * Umpire class — 37 boats, 1940–1943
 * Vampire class — 22 boats, 1943–1944
 * Amphion-class submarine — 16 boats, 1945–1947
 * Explorer-class submarine — 2 boats, 1954–1955
 * Stickleback-class submarine — 4 boats, 1954–1955
 * Porpoise class — 8 boats, 1956–1959
 * Oberon-class submarine — 13 boats, 1959–1966
 * Upholder-class submarine — 4 boats, 1986–1992

Midget

 * X-class submarine — 20 boats, 1943–1944
 * XE-class submarine — 12 boats, 1944
 * Stickleback-class submarine — 4 boats, 1954–1955

Rescue submersible

 * LR5 — leased to the Royal Australian Navy in 2009

Steam-electric

 * Swordfish — 1 boat, 1916–1922
 * K class — 22 boats, 1916–1919

Foreign-built

 * Archimede class — 1 boat, 1934
 * Type VIIC U-boat — 1 boat, 1941
 * Type XVII U-boat — 1 boat, 1943
 * Type XXIII U-boat — 2 boats, 1945

Land Based Prototype

 * HMS Vulcan PWR 1 (Dounreay Submarine Prototype 1) 1965–1984
 * HMS Vulcan PWR 2 (Shore Test Facility) 1987–present

Fleet

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

Ballistic missile

 * Resolution-class submarine — 4 boats, 1964–1986
 * Vanguard-class submarine — 4 boats, 1986–1998
 * Dreadnought-class submarine — 4 boats planned, 2028 onwards