Redoutable (Q 136)

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Redoutable (Q 136)
Marine national française
General data
Ship type : Submarine
Ship class : Redoutable class ( 1500 ton type )
Navy : French Navy
Keel laying : July 1, 1925
Launch : February 24, 1928
Commissioning: July 10, 1931
Builder : Arsenal de Cherbourg ( Cherbourg )
Whereabouts: Sunk on November 27, 1942 in Toulon .
Technical specifications

(see Redoutable class )

The Redoutable (Q 136) was the lead ship of the French Redoutable class .

Mission history

The submarine was used by the French Navy at the beginning of the Second World War. After the armistice between Germany and France on June 22, 1940, the Redoutable was under the control of the pro-German Vichy regime .

On November 8, 1942, Allied forces landed in French North Africa against very little resistance as part of Operation Torch . As a result of this operation, the German Wehrmacht also marched into the previously unoccupied southern France. The French navy reacted to the German invasion by scuttling . Large parts of the fleet, like the Redoutable , were sunk by their own crews in Toulon on November 27, 1942 .

The Italian Navy lifted the wreck in 1943, but could no longer make it clear to sea or otherwise use it. In an Allied air raid on March 11, 1944, the submarine was sunk for the second time and finally destroyed.

See also

  • Redoutable - other French ships with the same name

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. ↑ Erminio Bagnasco gives the year 1924 for the laying of the keel of Redoutable and Vengeur in submarines during World War II . The data given in the text come from uboat.net. Both sources agree on the launch and commissioning.
  2. ↑ Redoutable means scary in the French language .