Marine Nationale — Submarine class
Minerve-class submarine
Minerve class
The class in numbers
- 6 Completed
- 1 Lost
- 3 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Marine Nationale
- Built
- 1931–1938
- In commission
- 1936–1954
- Preceded by
- Argonaute-class submarine
- Succeeded by
- Aurore-class submarine
- Builders
- Ateliers et Chantiers Dubigeon, Nantes
- Arsenal de Cherbourg, Cherbourg
- Chantiers Worms, Rouen
- Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, Le Havre
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 662 long tons (673 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 856 long tons (870 t)
- Length
- 68.1 m (223.4 ft)
- Speed
- 14.2 knots (26.3 km/h, 16.3 mph)
- Complement
- 42
- Main gun
- 75 mm (3 in)
- Armament
- 1 × 75 mm/35 Model 1928 deck gun with 150 rounds
- 2 × 13.2 mm AA machine guns
- 6 × 550 mm internal torpedo tubes (4 bow/2 stern) with 12 torpedoes
- 3 × 400 mm external torpedo tubes
Roster
Holding 3 of the 6 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| French submarine Cérès (1938) | 1938 | 1939 | Scuttled 1942 |
| French submarine Iris | 1936 | Scrapped | |
| French submarine Pallas (1938) | 1938 | 1939 | Scuttled 1942 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Minerve-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.