The Barrow-in-Furness yard of Vickers, Sons and Maxim won the contract to build the first Royal Navy submarines in 1900. Illustrated with commemorative paintings of the many submarines that have since been built there, each entry in this volume carries a brief history and technical information about the vessels, which include the first British nuclear submarine, HMS Dreadnought, and the X-Craft midget submarines of the Second World War.