French submarine Marsouin (1924)
Service
- as Marsouin7 September 1927 — 27 November 19421,183 days of the war
- Name
- Marsouin
- Pennant / hull number
- 1924
- Builder
- Brest Arsenal
- Laid down
- 4 November 1922
- Launched
- 27 December 1924
- Commissioned
- 7 September 1927
- Fate
- Escaped from Toulon on 27 November 1942 and joined the Free French Naval Forces; disarmed at Oran in April 1944, and stricken on 28 February 1946. (1942)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,150 long tons (1,168 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,441 long tons (1,464 t)
- Length
- 78.3 m (256.9 ft)
- Beam
- 6.84 m (22.4 ft)
- Draught
- 5.1 m (16.7 ft)
- Speed
- 15 knots (27.8 km/h, 17.3 mph)
- Range
- 7,700 nmi (14,260 km)
- Complement
- 51
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
Marsouin was a Requin-class submarine in service with the Marine Nationale. She carried the pennant number 1924. Brest Arsenal laid her keel on 4 November 1922. Launched on 27 December 1924, she entered service on 7 September 1927.
Her class ran to nine ships. The Redoutable-class submarine followed.
The boat displaced 1,150 long tons surfaced and 1,441 long tons submerged. She measured 78.3 m (257 ft) long with a beam of 6.8 m (22 ft). Her designed speed was 15 knots, and she carried a complement of 51.
Her main battery was one 100 mm (3.9 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,183 days of the Second World War.
She was disposed of on 27 November 1942. Nothing of her 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 × diesel engines, 2900 hp
- 2 × electric motors, 1800 hp
- Armament
- 10 × 550 mm torpedo tubes
- 1 × 100 mm deck gun
- 2 × 8 mm machine guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from French submarine Marsouin (1924) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Marius Bar — Unknown source — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons