French submarine Rubis (1931)
Service
- as Rubis4 April 1933 — 4 October 19492,193 days of the war
- Name
- Rubis
- Pennant / hull number
- 1931
- Namesake
- Ruby
- Builder
- Arsenal de Toulon
- Laid down
- 3 April 1929
- Launched
- 30 September 1931
- Commissioned
- 4 April 1933
- Struck
- 4 October 1949
- Fate
- Scuttled on 31 January 1958 to be used as sonar target (1958)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 761 long tons (773 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 925 long tons (940 t)
- Length
- 65.9 m (216.2 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 nmi (13 km)
- Complement
- 42
- Main gun
- 75 mm (3 in)
Rubis was a Saphir-class submarine built for the Marine Nationale. She carried the pennant number 1931. The ship was named after Ruby. Arsenal de Toulon laid her keel on 3 April 1929. She entered service on 4 April 1933, having been launched on 30 September 1931.
She was one of six ships of her class.
The boat displaced 761 long tons surfaced and 925 long tons submerged. She measured 65.9 m (216 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. Her machinery developed 550 shp.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 4 October 1949.
She was scuttled on 31 January 1958, at 58°21′N 6°01′E. 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 electrical engines
- 2 diesel
- Power
- 2 × 550 shp (electrical)
- 2 × 650 shp (diesel)
- Armament
- 3 × 550 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 × 400 mm torpedo tubes
- 1 × 75 mm deck gun
- 1 × 13.2 mm machine gun
- 2 × 8 mm machine guns
- 32 naval mines
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from French submarine Rubis (1931) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown photographer on a Coastal Command aircraft — Coastal Command , Ministry of Information, 1942 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons