French submarine Astrée (Q200)
Service
- as Astrée? — June 1940301 days of the war
- as UF-3June 1940 — in service1,919 days of the war
- as AstréeOctober 1949 — 1962
- Name
- Astrée
- Pennant / hull number
- Q200
- Namesake
- Astraea
- Builder
- Nantes
- Ordered
- 1938
- Laid down
- November 1938
- Launched
- 3 May 1946
- Commissioned
- October 1949
- Decommissioned
- 1962
- Struck
- 27 November 1965
- Fate
- Scrapped
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 886 long tons (900 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,152 long tons (1,170 t)
- Length
- 73.5 m (241.1 ft)
- Beam
- 6.5 m (21.3 ft)
- Draught
- 4.2 m (13.8 ft)
- Speed
- 15 knots (27.8 km/h, 17.3 mph)
- Range
- 5,600 nmi (10,371 km)
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
Astrée was a Aurore-class submarine in service with the Marine Nationale. She carried the pennant number Q200. She was named for Astraea. Her keel was laid at Nantes in November 1938. She entered service in October 1949, having been launched on 3 May 1946.
She was one of five ships of her class. The class followed the Minerve-class submarine and was succeeded by the Narval class.
The boat displaced 886 long tons surfaced and 1,152 long tons submerged. She measured 73.5 m (241 ft) long with a beam of 6.5 m (21 ft). Her designed speed was 15 knots.
Her main battery was one 100 mm (3.9 in) guns.
She served with the Marine Nationale as Astrée until June 1940. She then passed to the Kriegsmarine, serving as UF-3 from June 1940. She then passed to the Marine Nationale, serving as Astrée from October 1949. She was in commission for 2,220 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1962. She was struck from the register on 27 November 1965.
She was broken up for scrap.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Diesel: 3000 shp
- 1400 shp electrical
- Armament
- 1 × 100 mm deck gun
- 2 × 13.2 mm machine guns
- 9 × 550 mm torpedo tubes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from French submarine Astrée (Q200) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Korrigan — Own work copyleft: Multi-license with GFDL and Creative Commons CC-BY-SA — CC BY-SA 3.0 — Wikimedia Commons