Diane class (1930)

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Diane class
French Diane class submarine.jpg
Ship data
country FranceFrance (national flag of the sea) France
Ship type Submarine
Construction period 1928 to 1934
Launch of the type ship May 13, 1930
Units built 9
period of service 1932 to 1946
Ship dimensions and crew
length
64.4 m ( Lüa )
width 5.1 m
Draft Max. 3.9 m
displacement over water: 651 tn.l.
under water: 807 tn.l.
 
crew 41 men
Machine system
machine Diesel engine
electric motor
Machine
performance
1,300 PS (956 kW)
Mission data submarine
Radius of action over water at 10 kn: 4000 nm
under water at 5 kn: 82 nm
Immersion depth, max. 80 m
Top
speed
submerged
9 kn (17 km / h)
Top
speed
surfaced
13.7 kn (25 km / h)
Armament
  • 1 × gun 7.6 cm L / 35
  • 1 × MG 8 mm
  • 6 × torpedo tube ⌀ 55.0 cm (3 fore, 2 amidships, 1 aft)
  • 2 × torpedo tube ⌀ 40.0 cm (aft)

The Diane class had an average U-boat - ship class of the French Navy . In the French type classification at the time, it was class 2 boats. The nine boats of the class were built between 1928 and 1934 at the shipyards “Chantier Augustin Normand” in Le Havre and “Chantier de la Seine” in Rouen . The class is also known as 630-ton Type F , respectively.

After the armistice between the German Reich and France on June 22, 1940, the boats were stationed in French North Africa and were under Vichy-French control.

During Operation Torch , the Allied landing in French North Africa in November 1942, four boats were sunk by the US Navy off Casablanca . Two boats were able to flee to Dakar in French West Africa , which was under Free French control, and were taken over by the Free French Navy. Diane was sunk before Oran , Orphée in North Africa was conquered by the Allies. La Sibylle sank in November 1942 under unexplained circumstances.

All remaining boats were decommissioned in 1946.

Boats of the class

  • Amazon
    • Builder : Chantier de la Seine (Rouen)
    • Keel laid : January 14, 1929
    • Launched : December 28, 1931
    • Commissioning: October 12, 1933
    • Where to find: Escaped to Dakar in 1942 and was taken over by the Free French Navy. Amazone was decommissioned on April 26, 1946.
  • Amphitrite
    • Builder: Chantier Augustin Normand (Le Havre)
    • Keel laying: August 8, 1928
    • Launched: December 20, 1930
    • Commissioning: June 8, 1933
    • Where: Was sunk on November 8, 1942 in Casablanca by the US battleship Massachusetts and accompanying ships and aircraft belonging to the aircraft carrier Ranger . The wreck was lifted by the Allies. Amazone was finally canceled in May 1946.
  • Antiope
    • Builder: Chantier de la Seine (Rouen)
    • Keel laid: December 28, 1928
    • Launched: August 18, 1930
    • Commissioning: October 12, 1933
    • Where to find: Escaped to Dakar in 1942 and was taken over by the Free French Navy. Antiope was decommissioned on April 26, 1946.
  • Diane
    • Builder: Chantier Augustin Normand (Le Havre)
    • Keel laid: January 4, 1928
    • Launched: May 13, 1930
    • Commissioning: September 1, 1932
    • Where: Diane was scuttled off Oran on November 9, 1942.
  • La Psyché
    • Builder: Chantier Augustin Normand (Le Havre)
    • Keel laying: December 26, 1930
    • Launched: August 4th, 1932
    • Commissioning: December 23, 1933
    • Where: Was sunk by US aircraft on November 8, 1942 off Casablanca. The wreck was lifted in 1944 but not repaired.
  • La Sibylle
    • Builder: Chantier de la Seine (Rouen)
    • Keel laid: January 10, 1931
    • Launched: January 28, 1933
    • Commissioning: December 22, 1934
    • Where to?: The boat left Casablanca on November 8, 1942 and has been missing ever since.
  • Méduse
    • Builder: Chantier Augustin Normand (Le Havre)
    • Keel laid: January 1, 1928
    • Launched: August 26, 1930
    • Commissioning: September 1, 1932
    • Where: On November 10, 1942 off Casablanca, badly damaged by US aircraft. The boat ran aground at El Jadida and was destroyed by an aircraft on the US light cruiser Philadelphia .
  • Oréade
    • Builder: Chantier de la Seine (Rouen)
    • Keel laid: August 15, 1929
    • Launched: May 23, 1932
    • Commissioning: December 14, 1933
    • Where: Was sunk on November 8, 1942 in the port of Casablanca by a US aircraft.
  • Orphée
    • Builder: Chantier Augustin Normand (Le Havre)
    • Keel laying: August 22, 1929
    • Launched: November 10, 1931
    • Commissioning: June 8, 1933
    • Where to go: Was taken over by the Free French Navy after the Allied landing in North Africa and decommissioned on April 15, 1946 after the end of the war.

literature

  • Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II . 5th edition. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-613-01252-9

Web links

Footnotes

  1. The French Navy distinguished three classes of submarines: 1st class boats were deep-sea boats, 2nd class boats were smaller coastal boats, 3rd class boats were mine layers .
  2. a b c d e uboat.net gives as a shipyard “Ch. Worms ”in Rouen. Erminio Bagnasco mentions submarines in WWII as the shipyard “Chantier de la Seine”, also in Rouen.