French submarine Souffleur (1924)
Service
- as Souffleur10 August 1926 — 25 June 1941663 days of the war
- Name
- Souffleur
- Pennant / hull number
- 1924
- Builder
- Arsenal de Cherbourg
- Laid down
- 2 October 1922
- Launched
- 1 October 1924
- Commissioned
- 10 August 1926
- Fate
- Torpedoed and sunk on 25 June 1941 off Beirut, Lebanon
By torpedo (1941) - Status
- Wreck
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)
Souffleur was a Requin-class submarine, operated by the Marine Nationale. She carried the pennant number 1924. Arsenal de Cherbourg laid her keel on 2 October 1922. Launched on 1 October 1924, she entered service on 10 August 1926.
Nine ships of the class were built. 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 663 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 25 June 1941 by torpedo, at 33°49′N 35°26′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 × 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 Souffleur (1924) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Roman Morawski (1883-1931) — https://audiovis.nac.gov.pl/obraz/80509/ (ze zbiorów Narodowego Archiwum Cyfrowego ) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons