Marine Nationale — Submarine class
Redoutable-class submarine (1928)
Redoutable class
The class in numbers
- 31 Completed
- 26 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Marine Nationale
- Builders
- Arsenal de Brest, Brest, France
- Arsenal de Cherbourg, Cherbourg, France
- Arsenal de Lorient, Lorient, France
- Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire, France
- Ateliers et Chantiers de Saint-Nazaire Penhoët, Saint-Nazaire, France
- Chantiers Dubigeon, Nantes, France
- Chantiers Navals Français, Blainville-sur-Orne, Caen, France
- Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée,La Seyne-sur-Mer, France
- Subclasses
- Type I – Le Redoutable, Type II – Le Pascal
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,476 long tons (1,500 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,968 long tons (2,000 t)
- Length
- 92.3 m (302.8 ft)
- Speed
- 20 knots (37 km/h, 23 mph)
- Complement
- 5
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
- Armament
- 9 × 550 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 × 400 mm torpedo tubes
- 1 × 100 mm deck gun
- 2 × 13.2 mm machine guns
Roster
Holding 29 of the 31 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
Sources
- Facts harvested from Redoutable-class submarine (1928) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.