Marine Nationale — Submarine class
Saphir-class submarine (1928)
Saphir class
The class in numbers
- 6 Completed
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Marine Nationale
- Built
- 1926–1935
- Builders
- Arsenal de Toulon
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 761 long tons (773 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 925 long tons (940 t)
- Length
- 66 m (216.5 ft)
- Speed
- 12 knots (22.2 km/h, 13.8 mph)
- Complement
- 42
- Main gun
- 75 mm (3 in)
- Armament
- 3 × 550 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 × 400 mm torpedo tubes
- 1 × 75 mm deck gun
- 2 × 13.2 mm machine guns
- 2 × 8 mm machine guns
- 32 × mines
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| French submarine Diamant (1933) | 1933 | 1934 | Scuttled 1942 |
| French submarine Nautilus (1930) | 1930 | 1931 | Captured 1942 |
| French submarine Perle (1935) | 1935 | 1937 | Sunk 1944 |
| French submarine Rubis (1931) | 1931 | 1933 | Scuttled 1958 |
| French submarine Saphir (1928) | 1928 | 1930 | Scuttled 1943 |
| French submarine Turquoise (1929) | 1929 | 1930 | Scuttled 1943 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Saphir-class submarine (1928) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.