| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Submarine |
| Class | V |
| Pennant | P 74 |
| Built by | Vickers Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.) |
| Ordered | 5 Dec 1941 |
| Laid down | 14 Dec 1942 |
| Launched | 15 Oct 1943 |
| Commissioned | 13 Jan 1944 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
| History | Sold to be broken up for scrap on 23 December 1949. Scrapped at Stockton on Tees. |
Commands listed for HMS Vigorous (P 74)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Lt. John Chaloner Ogle, DSC, RN | 8 Oct 1943 | 21 Apr 1945 |
| 2 | Lt. Norman Richard Wood, RN | 21 Apr 1945 | Oct 1945 ? |
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Noteable events involving Vigorous include:
27 Jul 1944
HMS Vigorous (Lt. J.C. Ogle, DSC, RN) sinks the Greek sailing vessel Doxa with gunfire 18 miles south of Milos Island, Greece.
3 Sep 1944
HMS Vigorous (Lt. J.C. Ogle, DSC, RN) claims the sinking of two sailing vessels off Paximadia Island, Greece.
24 Sep 1944
HMS Vigorous (Lt. J.C. Ogle, DSC, RN) claims the sinking of a sailing vessel south-east of Cape Drepano, Sithonia Peninsula, Greece.
27 Sep 1944
HMS Vigorous (Lt. J.C. Ogle, DSC, RN) torpedoes and sinks the German merchant Salomea (751 BRT, former Greek Evangelos Nomikos) off Kassandra, Greece.
She also sinks the German ferry SF 121 (110 BRT)
16 Jul 1945
HMS Vigorous (Lt. N.R. Wood, RN) damages a Japanese coaster with gunfire off north-west Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies.
At 1228 hours (time zone -6.5) Vigorous surfaced and opened fire with the deck gun at a beached coaster. 43 rounds were fired with 25 hits. 7 minutes after surfacing Vigorous dived again. (see map)