| French submarine Floréal | |
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 A postcard of sister ship Monge underway before 1915 | |
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| Name: | Floréal |
| Namesake: | The second month of Spring in the French Republican Calendar |
| Builder: | Arsenal de Cherbourg |
| Laid down: | 1906 |
| Launched: | 18 April 1908 |
| Completed: | 19 June 1909 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: Q54 |
| Fate: | Sunk in a collision, 2 August 1918 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class & type: | Pluviôse-class submarine |
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| Length: | 51.12 m (167 ft 9 in) (o/a) |
| Beam: | 4.96 m (16 ft 3 in) |
| Draft: | 3.15 m (10 ft 4 in) |
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| Complement: | 2 officers and 23 crewmen |
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Floréal was one of 18 Pluviôse-class submarines built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.
On 2 August 1918, Floréal collided with the Royal Navy armed boarding steamer HMS Hazel in the Aegean Sea and sank.[1]
Citations[]
- ↑ "French Navy". Naval History. http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyFrench.htm. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
Bibliography[]
- Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
- Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
- Garier, Gérard (2002) (in French). A l'épreuve de la Grande Guerre. L'odyssée technique et humaine du sous-marin en France. 3–2. Bourg-en-Bresse, France: Marines édition. ISBN 2-909675-81-5.
- Garier, Gérard (1998) (in French). Des Émeraude (1905-1906) au Charles Brun (1908–1933). L'odyssée technique et humaine du sous-marin en France. 2. Bourg-en-Bresse, France: Marines édition. ISBN 2-909675-34-3.
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