French submarine Sfax

Redoutable-class submarine

Service

Marine Nationale as Sfax7 September 1936 — 19 December 1940475 days of the war

Redoutable-class submarine Particulars

Name: Sfax
Namesake: Sfax, a city in Tunisia
Builder: Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire, France
Ordered: 1930
Laid down: 28 July 1931
Launched: 6 December 1934
Commissioned: 7 September 1936
Fate: Sunk 19 December 1940 (1940)
Status: Wreck

Specifications

Displacement, standard: 1,384 long tons (1,406 t)
Displacement, submerged: 2,084 long tons (2,117 t)
Length: 92.3 m (302.8 ft) OA
Beam: 8.2 m (26.9 ft)
Draught: 4.7 m (15.4 ft)
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h, 23 mph)
Range: 10,000 nmi (18,520 km)
Complement: 61
Main gun: 100 mm (3.9 in)

Sfax was a Redoutable-class submarine in service with the Marine Nationale. The ship was named after Sfax. Her keel was laid at Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire, France on 28 July 1931. Launched on 6 December 1934, she entered service on 7 September 1936.

Her class ran to 29 ships.

The boat displaced 2,084 long tons submerged. She measured 92.3 m (303 ft) long with a beam of 8.2 m (27 ft). Her designed speed was 20 knots, and she carried a complement of 61.

Her main battery was one 100 mm (3.9 in) guns.

She was in commission for 475 days of the Second World War.

She was sunk on 19 December 1940, at 58°30′N 5°30′E. The wreck survives.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: 2 diesel engines, 8000 shp
2 electric motors, 2000 shp
Armament: 4 × fixed 550 mm (21.7 in) torpedo tubes in bow
5 × 550 mm (21.7 in) and 2 × 400 mm (15.7 in) torpedo tubes on external mounts
1 × 100 mm (3.9 in) gun
1 × 13.2 mm machine gun

Sister ships

4 more in the class

Sources

Facts harvested from French submarine Sfax on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Marius Bar — Ajax — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons