Persée (Q 154)

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Persée (Q 154)
Marine national française
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Redoutable class ( 1500 ton type )
Navy : French Navy
Keel laying : April 14, 1929
Launch : May 23, 1931
Commissioning: June 10, 1934
Builder : Chantiers Navals Français ( Caen )
Whereabouts: Sunk by two Royal Navy destroyers off Senegal on September 23, 1940 .
Technical specifications

(see Redoutable class )

The Persée (Q 154) was a Redoutable class submarine of the French Navy during World War II .

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 Persée was sunk on September 23, 1940 by the two destroyers HMS Foresight and HMS Inglefield .

Web links

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 .

Explanations and references

  1. ↑ Persée means Perseus in the French language .