French submarine Espadon (1926)
Service
- as Espadon16 December 1927 — 8 December 19421,194 days of the war
- as FR 1148 December 1942 — 13 September 1943279 days of the war
- Name
- Espadon
- Pennant / hull number
- 1926
- Builder
- Arsenal de Toulon
- Laid down
- 1 October 1923
- Launched
- 29 May 1926
- Commissioned
- 16 December 1927
- Fate
- Scuttled by at the Castellamare shipyard on 13 September 1943, then raised by German forces in 1943 but not repaired. (1943)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- 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)
- Beam
- 6.84 m (22.4 ft)
- Draught
- 5.1 m (16.7 ft)
- Speed
- 15 knots (27.8 km/h, 17.3 mph)
- Range
- 7,700 nmi (14,260 km)
- Complement
- 51
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
Espadon was a Requin-class submarine of the Marine Nationale. She carried the pennant number 1926. Her keel was laid at Arsenal de Toulon on 1 October 1923. She entered service on 16 December 1927, having been launched on 29 May 1926.
Nine ships of the class were built. The Redoutable-class submarine followed.
The boat displaced 1,150 long tons surfaced and 1,441 long tons submerged. She measured 78.3 m (257 ft) long with a beam of 6.8 m (22 ft). Her designed speed was 15 knots, and she carried a complement of 51.
Her main battery was one 100 mm (3.9 in) guns.
She served with the Marine Nationale as Espadon until 8 December 1942. She then passed to the Regia Marina, serving as FR 114 from 8 December 1942. She was in commission for 1,473 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled on 13 September 1943. The wreck survives.
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, 2900 hp
- 2 × electric motors, 1800 hp
- Armament
- 10 × 550 mm torpedo tubes
- 1 × 100 mm deck gun
- 2 × 8 mm machine guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from French submarine Espadon (1926) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Roman Morawski (1883-1931) — https://audiovis.nac.gov.pl/obraz/80509/ (ze zbiorów Narodowego Archiwum Cyfrowego ) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons