Ajax
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Ship data
flag
France France
Ship type
Submarine
class
Redoutable class ( 1500 ton type )
Shipyard
Arsenal de Brest
Keel laying
September 1, 1928
Launch
May 28, 1930
Commissioning
February 1, 1934
Whereabouts
Sunk on September 24, 1940
Ship dimensions and crew
length
width
8.2 m
Draft
Max. 4.7 m
displacement
above water: 1,570 tons; below water: 2,084 tons
crew
61 men
Machine system
machine
Diesel engine electric motor (1,000 hp)
Machine performance
6,000 PS (4,413 kW)
Mission data submarine
Radius of action
over water (10 kn): 10,000 nm under water (7 kn): 100 nm
Dive time
45-50 s
Diving depth, normal
80 m
Top speed submerged
10 kn (19 km / h)
Top speed surfaced
17 kn (31 km / h)
Armament
1 × deck gun 10.0 cm L / 40
2 × Fla - MG 13.2 mm
9 × torpedo tube ⌀ 55.0 cm (4 front, 3 amidships, 2 rear)
2 × torpedo tube ⌀ 40.0 cm
The Ajax (Q 148) was a Redoutable class - submarine of the French Navy in the Second World War .
In September 1940, British and Free French troops made an unsuccessful attempt to land in Dakar in Operation Menace in the French West Africa colony under Vichy-French control .
In the course of the fighting, the Ajax was sunk on September 24, 1940 by the British destroyer Fortune . The submarine set out to attack the invasion fleet, but was discovered, attacked with depth charges, forced to surface and ultimately sunk by gunfire.
literature
Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II. (Technology - Classes - Types. A Comprehensive Encyclopedia). 5th edition. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-613-01252-9 .
Web links
Footnotes
↑ The name Ajax goes back to the Greek hero Aias of the Telamonians .
France
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