Marine Nationale — Submarine class
Orion-class submarine
Orion class
The class in numbers
- 2 Planned
- 2 Completed
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Marine Nationale
- Built
- 1928 - 1931
- Preceded by
- Argonaute class
- Succeeded by
- Diane class
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 558 long tons (567 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 787 long tons (800 t)
- Length
- 67 m (219.8 ft)
- Speed
- 14 knots (25.9 km/h, 16.1 mph)
- Complement
- 41
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
- Armament
- 6 × 550 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 × 400 mm torpedo tubes
- 1 × 76 mm gun M1
- 1 × 13.2 mm machine gun
- 2 × 8 mm machine gun
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| French submarine Ondine (Q166) | Q166 | 1932 | Scrapped 1940 |
| French submarine Orion | 1932 | Scrapped 1940 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Orion-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.