French submarine Eurydice (Q130)
Ariane-class submarine
Service
- as Eurydice1 September 1929 — 27 November 19421,183 days of the war
- Name
- Eurydice
- Pennant / hull number
- Q130
- Namesake
- Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus in Greek mythology
- Builder
- Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, Le Havre, France
- Ordered
- 1923
- Laid down
- 3 July 1923
- Launched
- 31 May 1927
- Commissioned
- 1 September 1929
- Fate
- Scuttled 27 November 1942
Refloated 25 June 1943, not repaired
Sunk 22 June 1944
Refloated 1945
Scrapped (1942) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 626 long tons (636 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 787 long tons (800 t)
- Speed
- 14 knots (25.9 km/h, 16.1 mph)
- Range
- 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
- Complement
- 41
- Main gun
- 75 mm (3 in)
Eurydice was a Ariane-class submarine in service with the Marine Nationale. She carried the pennant number Q130. The ship was named after Eurydice. Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, Le Havre, France laid her keel on 3 July 1923. She entered service on 1 September 1929, having been launched on 31 May 1927.
The boat displaced 626 long tons surfaced and 787 long tons submerged. Her designed speed was 14 knots, and she carried a complement of 41.
Her main battery was one 75 mm (3.0 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,183 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled on 27 November 1942. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 x 600 hp Vickers diesel engines
- 2 x 500 hp electric motors
- Armament
- 7 x 21.7 in torpedo tubes (6 bow/1 stern) or (3 internal bow/2 rotating external bow/2 stern) (sources disagree)
- 1 x 75 mm deck gun
- 1 or 2 x 13.2 mm machine guns (sources disagree)
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from French submarine Eurydice (Q130) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Marius Bar — Marius Bar photo — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons