French submarine Archimède (Q142)
Service
- as Archimède22 December 1932 — 19 February 19522,193 days of the war
- Name
- Archimède
- Pennant / hull number
- Q142
- Namesake
- Archimedes (ca. 287 BC–212 BC) Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor
- Builder
- Chantiers Navals Français, Blainville-sur-Orne, Caen, France
- Laid down
- 1 August 1927
- Launched
- 6 September 1930
- Commissioned
- 22 December 1932
- Decommissioned
- 19 February 1952
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 1,547 long tons (1,572 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 2,059 long tons (2,092 t)
- Length
- 92.3 m (302.8 ft)
- Beam
- 8.1 m (26.6 ft)
- Draught
- 4.4 m (14.4 ft)
- Speed
- 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h, 20.1 mph)
- Range
- 14,000 nmi (25,928 km)
- Complement
- 5
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
Archimède was a Redoutable-class submarine in service with the Marine Nationale. She carried the pennant number Q142. The ship was named after Archimedes. Chantiers Navals Français, Blainville-sur-Orne, Caen, France laid her keel on 1 August 1927. Launched on 6 September 1930, she entered service on 22 December 1932.
Her class ran to 29 ships.
The boat displaced 1,547 long tons surfaced and 2,059 long tons submerged. She measured 92.3 m (303 ft) long with a beam of 8.1 m (27 ft). Her designed speed was 17.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 5.
Her main battery was one 100 mm (3.9 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 19 February 1952.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × diesel engines, 6000 hp
- 2 × electric motors, 2250 hp
- Armament
- 11 torpedo tubes
- 1 × 100 mm gun
- 1 × 13.2 mm machine gun
- 1 x 20 mm antiaircraft gun (added 1944)
Sister ships
- French submarine Achéron
- French submarine Achille
- French submarine Actéon
- French submarine Agosta (Q178)
- French submarine Ajax
- French submarine Argo
- French submarine Bévéziers (1935)
- French submarine Casabianca (1935)
- French submarine Fresnel (Q143)
- French submarine Henri Poincaré
- French submarine L’Espoir
- French submarine Le Centaure
- French submarine Le Conquérant (Q171)
- French submarine Le Glorieux
- French submarine Le Héros
- French submarine Le Tonnant (Q172)
- French submarine Monge (Q144)
- French submarine Ouessant (Q180)
- French submarine Pascal
- French submarine Pasteur
- French submarine Pégase (Q156)
- French submarine Persée
- French submarine Poncelet
- French submarine Protée (1930)
Sources
- Facts harvested from French submarine Archimède (Q142) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Marius Bar — Ajax — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons