French submarine Sirène (Q123)
Service
- as Sirène12 March 1927 — in service2,193 days of the war
- Name
- Sirène
- Pennant / hull number
- Q123
- Namesake
- Siren
- Builder
- Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire, France
- Laid down
- 28 November 1923
- Launched
- 6 August 1925
- Commissioned
- 12 March 1927
- Fate
- Scrapped
- Status
- Scrapped
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)
Sirène was a Sirène-class submarine of the Marine Nationale. She carried the pennant number Q123. She was named for Siren. Her keel was laid at Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire, France on 28 November 1923. She entered service on 12 March 1927, having been launched on 6 August 1925.
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 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap.
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 Sirène (Q123) 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