Marine Nationale — Submarine
French submarine Orphée
Service
- as Orphée8 June 1933 — 26 March 19462,193 days of the war
Diane-class submarine
Particulars
- Name
- Orphée
- Namesake
- Orpheus, a Thracian bard, musician, poet and prophet in ancient Greek religion
- Builder
- Augustin Normand, Le Havre, France
- Ordered
- 1928
- Laid down
- 22 August 1929
- Launched
- 10 November 1931
- Commissioned
- 8 June 1933
- Fate
- Condemned 26 March 1946
Disarmed April 1946 (1946) - Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 571 long tons (580 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 809 long tons (822 t)
- Length
- 64.4 m (211.3 ft)
- Beam
- 6.2 m (20.3 ft)
- Draught
- 4.3 m (14.1 ft)
- Range
- 4,000 nmi (7,408 km)
- Complement
- 41
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
Orphée was a Diane-class submarine in service with the Marine Nationale. The ship was named after Orpheus. Her keel was laid at Augustin Normand, Le Havre, France on 22 August 1929. She entered service on 8 June 1933, having been launched on 10 November 1931.
Her class ran to nine ships. The class followed the 600 Series submarines and was succeeded by the Orion-class submarine.
The boat displaced 571 long tons surfaced and 809 long tons submerged. She measured 64.4 m (211 ft) long with a beam of 6.2 m (20 ft). She carried a complement of 41.
Her main battery was one 76 mm (3 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
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 x 650 hp Normand-Vickers diesel engines
- 2 x 500 hp electric motors
- Armament
- 3 × 550 mm bow torpedo tubes
- 3 × 550 mm torpedo tubes in forward external rotating turret
- 1 × 550 mm and 2 x 400 mm torpedo tubes in after external rotating turret
- 1 × 76.2 mm deck gun
- 1 × 13.2 mm machine gun
- 2 × 8 mm machine guns
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from French submarine Orphée on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: US Navy — US National Archives, Record Group 80 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons