Aréthuse class

Aréthuse class

The Argonaute as a museum ship

Ship data country  France Ship type Submarine Shipyard Arsenal de Cherbourg, Cherbourg Launch of the type ship November 9, 1957 Units built 4th period of service 1958 to 1981

Ship dimensions and crew length 49.6 m ( Lüa ) width 5.8 m Draft Max. 4.0 m displacement above water: 543 ts under water: 669 ts   crew 39 men

Machine system machine Diesel drive : 790 kW Electric drive : 969 kW

Mission data submarine Top speed submerged 16 kn (30 km / h) Top speed surfaced 12.5 kn (23 km / h)

Armament 4 × torpedo tube ⌀ 550 mm (8 torpedoes)

The Aréthuse- class was a French class of hunting submarines. The submarines were built for the French Navy in the 1950s . The construction came about under the influence of the German submarine class XXIII .

The submarines were used in the Mediterranean, were in service until 1981, and were replaced by the Rubis- class nuclear submarines . The Argonaute is now a museum ship in the Parc de la Villette in Paris .

An enlarged further development of the class was the Daphné class built in the late 1960s .

Boats of the class

• Aréthuse (S 635)
  • Launched : November 9, 1957
  • Commissioning: October 23, 1958
  • Out of service: April 1979
• Argonaute (S 636)
  • Launched: June 29, 1957
  • Commissioning: February 11, 1959
  • Out of service: 1981
• Amazone (S 639)
  • Launched: April 3, 1958
  • Commissioned: July 1, 1959
  • Out of service: July 1980
• Ariane (S 640)
  • Launched: September 12, 1958
  • Commissioning: March 16, 1960
  • Out of service: March 1981

See also

• List of French submarine classes

literature

• Chris Chant: Modern submarines technology - tactics - armament. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 1st edition 2005, ISBN 3-7276-7150-5 .

Web links

Commons : Aréthuse class  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

1. ↑ The French metric 550 mm standard can be converted to the internationally widespread 533 mm (21 inch ) standard using plug-in adapters.