French submarine Galatée (Q132)
Service
- as Galatée6 May 1927 — 27 November 19421,183 days of the war
- Name
- Galatée
- Pennant / hull number
- Q132
- Namesake
- Galatea
- Builder
- Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire, France
- Ordered
- 30 June 1922
- Laid down
- 1 February 1924
- Launched
- 18 December 1925
- Commissioned
- 6 May 1927
- Fate
- Scuttled 27 November 1942
Seized by Germany
Transferred to Italy
Refloated 2 December 1942 or 25 June 1943
Seized by Germany September 1943
Sunk 5 July 1944
Refloated and hulked 1945
Scuttled 17 March 1949 (1942) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 609 long tons (619 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 757 long tons (769 t)
- Length
- 64 m (210 ft)
- Beam
- 5.2 m (17.1 ft)
- Draught
- 4.3 m (14.1 ft)
- Speed
- 13.5 knots (25 km/h, 15.5 mph)
- Range
- 3,500 nmi (6,482 km)
- Complement
- 41
- Main gun
- 75 mm (3 in)
Galatée was a submarine of the Sirène-class submarines (1925), operated by the Marine Nationale. She carried the pennant number Q132. The ship was named after Galatea. Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire, France laid her keel on 1 February 1924. She entered service on 6 May 1927, having been launched on 18 December 1925.
Her class ran to three ships.
The boat displaced 609 long tons surfaced and 757 long tons submerged. She measured 64 m (210 ft) long with a beam of 5.2 m (17 ft). Her designed speed was 13.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 41.
Her main battery was one 75 mm (3.0 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,183 days of the Second World War.
She was scuttled on 27 November 1942. 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
- Armament
- 7 × 550 mm torpedo tubes
- 1 × 75 mm deck gun
- 2 × 8 mm machine guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from French submarine Galatée (Q132) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Manon 17 — Own work — CC BY-SA 4.0 — Wikimedia Commons