Aurore-class submarine | |
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Class overview | |
Name: | Aurore |
Builders: | Le Havre, Nantes, Toulon, Chalon-sur-Saône, Rouen |
Operators: |
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In service: | 1946 - 1962 |
Planned: | 8 |
Completed: | 15 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: |
900 tonnes surfaced |
Length: | 73.5 metres |
Beam: | 6.5 metres |
Draught: | 4.2 metres |
Propulsion: |
Diesel: 3000 shp (2237 KW) |
Speed: |
15 knots (28 km/h) surfaced |
Range: |
5600 nm a 10 knots |
Test depth: | 100 metres |
Armament: |
1 x 100 mm deck gun |
The Aurore class was a class of coastal submarines designed for the French Navy. Some of the ships were captured by Nazi Germany after the Fall of France, most of them in an unfinished state. Five of the ships, Andromède, Astrée, Africaine, Artémis and Créole, were completed after the war, were commissioned in the French Navy and served into the 1960s. Andromède, Artémis and Créole were fitted with GUPPY sails and Submarine snorkels.
Ships[]
- Aurore (Q192)
- Builder: Toulon
- Ordered:
- Launched: 1939
- Fate: Scuttled during the Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon in 1942
- Créole (Q193)
- Builder: Le Havre
- Ordered:
- Launched: 8 June 1940
- Fate: Broken up in 1961
- Bayadère (Q194)
- Builder: Le Havre
- Ordered:
- Launched:
- Fate: Broken up in 1940 still on keel, never finished
- Favorite (Q195)
- Builder: Rouen
- Ordered:
- Launched: September 1938
- Fate: taken by the Germans, scuttled in July 1944
- Africaine (Q196)
- Builder: Rouen
- Ordered:
- Launched:
- Fate: Broken up in 1963
- Astrée (Q200)
- Builder: Nantes
- Ordered:
- Launched:
- Fate: Broken up in 1965
- Andromède (Q201)
- Builder: Nantes
- Ordered:
- Launched:
- Fate: Broken up in 1965
- Antigone (Q202)
- Builder: Chalon-sur-Saône
- Ordered:
- Launched:
- Fate: Broken up in 1940 still on keel, never finished
- Andromaque (Q203)
- Builder: Rouen
- Ordered:
- Launched:
- Fate: Broken up in 1940 still on keel, never finished
- Artémis (Q206)
- Builder: Le Havre
- Ordered:
- Launched:
- Fate: Broken up in 1967
- Armide (Q207)
- Builder: Rouen
- Ordered:
- Launched:
- Fate: Broken up in 1940 still on keel, never finished
- Hermione (Q211)
- Builder: Le Havre
- Ordered:
- Launched:
- Fate: Broken up on keel
- Gorgone (Q212)
- Builder: Le Havre
- Ordered:
- Launched:
- Fate: Broken up on keel
- Clorinde (Q213)
- Builder: Nantes
- Ordered:
- Launched:
- Fate: Broken up in 1940 still on keel, never finished
- Cornélie (Q214)
- Builder:
- Ordered:
- Launched:
- Fate: Keel never laid
See also[]
References[]
- Conway : Conways All the Worlds Fighting Ships 1922-1946 (1980) ISBN 0-85177-146-7
External links[]
- (French) Les sous marins de type "AURORE"
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