Marine Nationale — Submarine class
Requin-class submarine
Requin class
The class in numbers
- 9 Completed
- 7 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Marine Nationale
- Built
- 1923–1928
- Succeeded by
- Redoutable-class submarine
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,150 long tons (1,168 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,441 long tons (1,464 t)
- Length
- 78.3 m (256.9 ft)
- Speed
- 15 knots (27.8 km/h, 17.3 mph)
- Complement
- 51
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
- Armament
- 10 × 550 mm torpedo tubes
- 1 × 100 mm deck gun
- 2 × 8 mm machine guns
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| French submarine Caïman | 1928 | Scuttled 1942 | |
| French submarine Dauphin (1925) | 1925 | 1927 | Scuttled 1943 |
| French submarine Espadon (1926) | 1926 | 1927 | Scuttled 1943 |
| French submarine Marsouin (1924) | 1924 | 1927 | Disposed 1942 |
| French submarine Morse (1925) | 1925 | 1928 | Sunk 1940 |
| French submarine Narval (1925) | 1925 | 1926 | Sunk 1940 |
| French submarine Phoque (1926) | 1926 | 1928 | Sunk 1943 |
| French submarine Requin (1924) | 1924 | 1926 | Scrapped 1944 |
| French submarine Souffleur (1924) | 1924 | 1926 | Sunk 1941 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Requin-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.