List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy

Petrol-electric

• — 5 boats, 1901–1902
• — 13 boats, 1902–1905
• B class — 11 boats, 1904–1906
• C class — 38 boats, 1906–1910

  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
• — 1 boat, 1921
• — 9 boats 1926–29
• — 6 boats, 1929
• — 4 boats, 1930
• S class — 62 boats, 1931–1945
• Thames class — 3 boats, 1932
• — 6 boats, 1932–1938
• T class — 52 boats, 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
• — 16 boats, 1945–1947
• — 2 boats, 1954–1955
• — 4 boats, 1954–1955
• Porpoise class — 8 boats, 1956–1959
• — 13 boats, 1959–1966
• — 4 boats, 1986–1992

  Midget

• — 20 boats, 1943–1944
• — 6 boats, 1944
• — 5 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

  Nuclear powered

Land Based Prototype

• HMS Vulcan PWR 1 1965–1984
• HMS Vulcan PWR 2 1987–present

  Fleet

• — one boat, 1959–1960
• — 2 boats, 1962–1965
• — 3 boats, 1967–1970
• — 6 boats, 1969–1979
• — 7 boats, 1979–1991
• — 7 boats planned, 2001–present

  Ballistic missile

• — 4 boats, 1964–1986
• — 4 boats, 1986–1998
• — 4 boats planned, 2028 onwards