French submarine Junon (1935)
Service
- as Junon20 September 1937 — 6 December 19542,193 days of the war
- Name
- Junon
- Pennant / hull number
- 1935
- Namesake
- Juno
- Builder
- Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, Le Havre
- Laid down
- 9 June 1932
- Launched
- 15 September 1935
- Commissioned
- 20 September 1937
- Decommissioned
- 6 December 1954
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1960 (1960)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 662 long tons (673 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 856 long tons (870 t)
- Length
- 68.1 m (223.4 ft)
- Beam
- 5.6 m (18.4 ft)
- Draught
- 4 m (13.1 ft)
- Speed
- 14.2 knots (26.3 km/h, 16.3 mph)
- Range
- 2,000 nmi (3,704 km)
- Complement
- 42
- Main gun
- 75 mm (3 in)
Junon was a submarine in service with the Marine Nationale. She carried the pennant number 1935. She was named for Juno. Her keel was laid at Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, Le Havre on 9 June 1932. Launched on 15 September 1935, she entered service on 20 September 1937.
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 decommissioned on 6 December 1954.
She was broken up for scrap in 1960.
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 × Vickers-Normand diesel engines, 1800 bhp
- 2 × Electric motors, 1230 shp
- Armament
- 1 × 75 mm/35 Model 1928 deck gun with 150 rounds
- 2 × 13.2 mm AA machine guns
- 6 × 550 mm internal torpedo tubes (4 bow/2 stern) with 12 torpedoes
- 3 × 400 mm external torpedo tubes
Sources
- Facts harvested from French submarine Junon (1935) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//18/media-18792/large.jpg This photograph FL 4368 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons