Marine Nationale — Submarine
French submarine Créole
Service
- as Créole1 April 1949 — 1963
Aurore-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- Créole
- Namesake
- "Creol"
- Builder
- Le Havre
- Laid down
- 1937
- Launched
- 8 June 1940
- Commissioned
- 1 April 1949
- Fate
- Scrapped 1963 (1963)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 886 long tons (900 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,152 long tons (1,170 t)
- Length
- 73.5 m (241.1 ft)
- Beam
- 6.5 m (21.3 ft)
- Draught
- 4.2 m (13.8 ft)
- Speed
- 15 knots (27.8 km/h, 17.3 mph)
- Range
- 5,600 nmi (10,371 km)
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
Créole was a Aurore-class submarine built for the Marine Nationale. She was named for "Creol". Le Havre laid her keel in 1937. Launched on 8 June 1940, she entered service on 1 April 1949.
Her class ran to five ships. The class followed the Minerve-class submarine and was succeeded by the Narval class.
The boat displaced 886 long tons surfaced and 1,152 long tons submerged. She measured 73.5 m (241 ft) long with a beam of 6.5 m (21 ft). Her designed speed was 15 knots.
Her main battery was one 100 mm (3.9 in) guns.
She was broken up for scrap in 1963.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Diesel: 3000 shp
- 1400 shp electrical
- Armament
- 1 × 100 mm deck gun
- 2 × 13.2 mm machine guns
- 9 × 550 mm torpedo tubes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from French submarine Créole on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Korrigan — Own work copyleft: Multi-license with GFDL and Creative Commons CC-BY-SA — CC BY-SA 3.0 — Wikimedia Commons