Marine Nationale — Submarine class
Argonaute-class submarine
Argonaute-class
The class in numbers
- 5 Completed
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Marine Nationale
- Built
- 1927–1935
- In commission
- 1932–1945
- Builders
- Schneider et Cie, Chalon sur Saône
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 620 long tons (630 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 785 long tons (798 t)
- Length
- 63.4 m (208 ft)
- Speed
- 14 knots (25.9 km/h, 16.1 mph)
- Complement
- 41
- Main gun
- 75 mm (3 in)
- Armament
- 6 × 550 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 × 400 mm torpedo tubes
- 1 × 75 mm deck gun
- 1 × 8 mm machine gun
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| French submarine Aréthuse (NN7) | NN7 | 1933 | 1946 |
| French submarine Argonaute (NN6) | NN6 | 1932 | Sunk 1942 |
| French submarine Atalante (Q162) | Q162 | 1934 | 1946 |
| French submarine La Sultane (Q177) | Q177 | 1935 | 1946 |
| French submarine Vestale | 1934 | Scrapped 1946 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Argonaute-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.