Persée (Q 154)
Persée (Q 154)![]() |
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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
- ↑ Persée means Perseus in the French language .