French submarine Cérès (1938)

Cérès was a Minerve-class submarine, operated by the Marine Nationale. She carried the pennant number 1938. The ship was named after Ceres. Chantiers Worms, Rouen laid her keel on 8 August 1936. Launched on 9 December 1938, she entered service on 15 July 1939.

Her class ran to three ships. The class followed the Argonaute-class submarine and was succeeded by the Aurore-class submarine.

The boat displaced 662 long tons surfaced and 856 long tons submerged. She measured 68.1 m (223 ft) long with a beam of 5.6 m (18 ft). Her designed speed was 14.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 42.

Her main battery was one 75 mm (3.0 in) guns.

She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 18 February 1946.

She was scuttled on 9 November 1942. The wreck survives.

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