Marine Nationale — Submarine class
Circé-class submarine (1925)
Circé class
The class in numbers
- 4 Completed
- 4 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Marine Nationale
- Built
- 1925–1927
- In commission
- 1927–1940
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 605 long tons (615 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 764 long tons (776 t)
- Length
- 64 m (210 ft)
- Speed
- 14 knots (25.9 km/h, 16.1 mph)
- Complement
- 41
- Main gun
- 75 mm (3 in)
- Armament
- 7 × 550 mm torpedo tubes
- 1 × 75 mm deck gun
- 2 × 8 mm machine guns
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| French submarine Calypso (Q126) | Q126 | 1928 | Transferred 1942 |
| French submarine Circé (Q125) | Q125 | 1927 | Scuttled 1943 |
| French submarine Doris (Q135) | Q135 | 1928 | Sunk 1940 |
| French submarine Thétis | 1929 | Scuttled 1942 | |
| Italian submarine FR117 | 1927 | Scuttled 1943 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Circé-class submarine (1925) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.