The BLACK PIG - HMS Repulse on Patrol (1983) - Inside one of Britain's Nuclear Polaris Missile Submarines 1983 (Series 2x2) HMS Repulse (S23) was a Resolution-class ballistic missile submarine of the Royal Navy. HMS Repulse was one of two Resolution-class ballistic missile submarines ordered from Vickers-Armstrongs on 8 May 1963, with a further two ordered from Cammell Laird the same day. Repulse was laid down at Vickers Armstrongs' Barrow-in-Furness shipyard on 12 March 1965 and was launched on