Marine Nationale — Submarine class
Sirène-class submarine (1925)
Sirène class
The class in numbers
- 4 Completed
- 3 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Navy
- Marine Nationale
- Built
- 1925–1927
- In commission
- 1927–1944
- Builders
- Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Nantes
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 609 long tons (619 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 757 long tons (769 t)
- Length
- 64 m (210 ft)
- Speed
- 13.5 knots (25 km/h, 15.5 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
Holding 3 of the 4 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 Galatée (Q132) | Q132 | 1927 | Scuttled 1942 |
| French submarine Naïade (Q124) | Q124 | 1927 | Scuttled 1942 |
| French submarine Sirène (Q123) | Q123 | 1927 | Scrapped |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Sirène-class submarine (1925) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.