French submarine Naïade (Q124)
Service
- as Naïade6 May 1927 — 27 November 19421,183 days of the war
- Name
- Naïade
- Pennant / hull number
- Q124
- Namesake
- Naiad, a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water in Greek mythology
- Builder
- Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire, France
- Laid down
- 28 November 1923
- Launched
- 20 October 1925
- Commissioned
- 6 May 1927
- Fate
- Scuttled 27 November 1942
Seized by Germany
Transferred to Italy
Refloated 13 March 1943
Sunk 17 April 1943
Refloated 17 July 1943
Seized by Germany September 1943
Sunk 24 November 1943
Refloated 1945
Scrapped (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)
Naïade was a Sirène-class submarine, operated by the Marine Nationale. She carried the pennant number Q124. The ship was named after Naiad. Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire, France laid her keel on 28 November 1923. Launched on 20 October 1925, she entered service on 6 May 1927.
Three ships of the class were built.
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 Naïade (Q124) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: K. Ye. Sergeyev (К.Е.Сергеев) — Own work — CC BY-SA 3.0 — Wikimedia Commons