Marine Nationale — Submarine
1930
French submarine Nautilus (1930)
Service
- as Nautilus15 July 1931 — 8 December 19421,194 days of the war
Saphir-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- Nautilus
- Pennant / hull number
- 1930
- Namesake
- Nautilus
- Builder
- Arsenal de Toulon
- Laid down
- 8 August 1927
- Launched
- 20 March 1930
- Commissioned
- 15 July 1931
- Fate
- Captured at Bizerte, Tunisia on 8 December 1942 by Italian forces, sunk there during an Allied air raid on 31 January 1943. Raised but not repaired, then stricken on 12 August 1947. (1942)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 761 long tons (773 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 925 long tons (940 t)
- Length
- 66 m (216.5 ft)
- Beam
- 7.1 m (23.3 ft)
- Draught
- 4.3 m (14.1 ft)
- Speed
- 12 knots (22.2 km/h, 13.8 mph)
- Range
- 7,000 nmi (12,964 km)
- Complement
- 42
- Main gun
- 75 mm (3 in)
Nautilus was a Saphir-class submarine in service with the Marine Nationale. She carried the pennant number 1930. She was named for Nautilus. Her keel was laid at Arsenal de Toulon on 8 August 1927. She entered service on 15 July 1931, having been launched on 20 March 1930.
Her class ran to six ships.
The boat displaced 761 long tons surfaced and 925 long tons submerged. She measured 66 m (217 ft) long with a beam of 7.1 m (23 ft). Her designed speed was 12 knots, and she carried a complement of 42.
Her main battery was one 75 mm (3.0 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,194 days of the Second World War.
She was captured on 8 December 1942.
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, 1300 hp
- 2 × electric motors, 1100 hp
- Armament
- 3 × 550 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 × 400 mm torpedo tubes
- 1 × 75 mm deck gun
- 2 × 13.2 mm machine guns
- 2 × 8 mm machine guns
- 32 × mines
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from French submarine Nautilus (1930) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — http://images-01.delcampe-static.net/img_large/auction/000/321/078/291_001.jpg Scanned French postcard — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons