French submarine Le Conquérant (Q171)
Service
- as Le Conquérant7 September 1936 — 13 November 19421,169 days of the war
- Name
- Le Conquérant
- Pennant / hull number
- Q171
- Namesake
- Conqueror, a person who engages in conquest
- Builder
- Ateliers et Chantiers de Saint-Nazaire Penhoët, Saint-Nazaire, France
- Laid down
- 16 August 1930
- Launched
- 26 June 1934
- Commissioned
- 7 September 1936
- Fate
- Sunk 13 November 1942 (1942)
- Status
- Wreck
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)
Le Conquérant was a Redoutable-class submarine in service with the Marine Nationale. She carried the pennant number Q171. The ship was named after Conqueror. Her keel was laid at Ateliers et Chantiers de Saint-Nazaire Penhoët, Saint-Nazaire, France on 16 August 1930. She entered service on 7 September 1936, having been launched on 26 June 1934.
29 ships of the class were built.
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 1,169 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 13 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
- 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
Sister ships
- French submarine Achéron
- French submarine Achille
- French submarine Actéon
- French submarine Agosta (Q178)
- French submarine Ajax
- French submarine Archimède (Q142)
- 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 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 Le Conquérant (Q171) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Marius Bar — Ajax — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons