French submarine Monge (Q144)
Service
- as Monge19 June 1932 — 8 May 1942980 days of the war
- Name
- Monge
- Pennant / hull number
- Q144
- Namesake
- Gaspard Monge (1746–1818), French mathematician
- Builder
- Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne-sur-Mer France
- Laid down
- 15 September 1927
- Launched
- 25 June 1929
- Commissioned
- 19 June 1932
- Fate
- Sunk 8 May 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)
Monge was a Redoutable-class submarine, operated by the Marine Nationale. She carried the pennant number Q144. The ship was named after Gaspard Monge. Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne-sur-Mer France laid her keel on 15 September 1927. She entered service on 19 June 1932, having been launched on 25 June 1929.
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 980 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 8 May 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 Conquérant (Q171)
- French submarine Le Glorieux
- French submarine Le Héros
- French submarine Le Tonnant (Q172)
- 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 Monge (Q144) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Marius Bar — Ajax — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons