Rubis (1933)
Rubis 
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| Ship type : | Submarine |
| Ship class : | Sapphire grade |
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| Builder : | Arsenal de Toulon ( Toulon ) |
| Keel laying : | April 3, 1929 |
| Launch : | September 30, 1931 |
| Commissioning: | April 4, 1933 |
| Whereabouts: | Decommissioned on October 4, 1949 . Sunk on the way to scrapping. |
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| Technical specifications | |
| Crew: | 42 men |
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| Length : | 65.9 m |
| Width: | 7.1 m |
| Draft : | 4.3 m |
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| Fuel supply: | 95 ts |
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| Diving depth : | 80 m |
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| Artillery : | 1 * 75mm L / 35 deck gun |
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| Torpedoes : | 3 * 550mm torpedo tubes |
| Sea mines : | 32 mines in 16 vertical shafts |
Rubis was a submarine of the French Navy in the Second World War . The minelayer of sapphire class was from 1929 to 1933 at the Naval Shipyard Toulon built.
Mission history
At the time of the armistice of June 22, 1940 , Rubis was in Great Britain , was taken over by the British in the course of Operation Grasp and handed over to the Free French armed forces under General Charles de Gaulle .
Under the commanders Cabanier and Rousselot, the submarine undertook a total of 22 enemy voyages in the Bay of Biscay and off the coast of Norway between April 1940 and the end of the war in 1945 . 683 sea mines were relocated during the operations . A total of 14 merchant and auxiliary ships with approx. 21,000 GRT were sunk through the mines. There were also seven guard boats and a mine-layer. A Finnish merchant ship was sunk with torpedoes.
Rubis was shut down in 1949 and sunk between Saint-Tropez and Cavalaire in 1958. The wreck was rediscovered by divers in 1971.
Sunk or damaged ships
1940
- On May 26, 1940, the Norwegian transport ship Vansø (54 GRT) ran at position 58 ° 21 ′ N , 6 ° 1 ′ E on a mine laid by the Rubis on May 10, 1940 and sank.
- On May 28, 1940, the Norwegian sailing ship Blaamannen (174 GRT) ran off Haugesund at position 59 ° 28 ' N , 5 ° 12' E on a mine laid by the Rubis on May 27, 1940 and sank.
- On May 31, 1940, the Norwegian merchant ship Jadarland (938 GRT) ran off Haugesund at position 59 ° 28 ' N , 5 ° 12' E on a mine laid by the Rubis on May 27, 1940 and sank.
- On June 10, 1940, the Norwegian merchant ship Sverre Sigurdssøn (1,081 GRT) ran near Herdla at position 60 ° 36 ' N , 4 ° 55' E on a mine laid by the Rubis on June 9, 1940 and sank.
- On July 7, 1940, the Norwegian merchant ship Almora (2,433 GRT) ran off Egersund at position 58 ° 21 ′ N , 6 ° 1 ′ E on a mine laid by the Rubis on May 10, 1940 and was damaged.
- On July 24, 1940, the Norwegian merchant ship Kem (1,705 GRT) ran off Egersund at position 58 ° 21 ' N , 6 ° 1' E on a mine laid by the Rubis on May 10, 1940 and sank.
- On July 28, 1940, the Norwegian merchant ship Argo (413 GRT) ran off Egersund at position 58 ° 21 ' N , 6 ° 1' E on a mine laid by the Rubis on May 10, 1940 and sank.
1941
- On August 21, 1941, the Rubis torpedoed and sank the Finnish merchant ship Hogland (4,360 GRT) off the Norwegian coast at position 58 ° 27 ' N , 5 ° 46' E
1942
- On June 12, 1942, the German auxiliary minesweeper M 4212 (formerly: Marie Frans ) (125 BRT) ran in the Bay of Biscay at position 43 ° 37 ′ N , 1 ° 34 ′ W on one of the Rubis on June 5, 1942 laid mine and sank.
- On June 26, 1942, the French tug Quand Meme (288 GRT) ran in the Bay of Biscay at position 43 ° 37 ' N , 1 ° 35' W on a mine laid by the Rubis on June 5, 1942 and sank.
- On July 10, 1942, the German auxiliary minesweeper M 4401 (formerly: Imbrin ) (339 BRT) ran in the Bay of Biscay northwest of Arcachon at position 44 ° 58 ' N , 1 ° 23' W on a mine laid by the Rubis and sank.
- On August 18, 1942, the German outpost boat V 406 (ex: Hans Loh) (464 BRT) ran in the Biscay southwest of the mouth of the Gironde at position 45 ° 3 ′ N , 1 ° 34 ′ W on one of the Rubis on 14 August 1942 laid mine and sank.
- On September 20, 1942, the German auxiliary minesweeper M 4448 (ex: L 4148) (77 BRT) ran in the Biscay off Bayonne at position 43 ° 37 ′ N , 1 ° 34 ′ W on one of the Rubis on June 5, 1942 laid mine and sank.
1943
- On July 10, 1943, the German auxiliary minesweeper M 4451 (ex: Gauleiter A. Meyer) (652 BRT) ran in the Bay of Biscay off Arcachon at the position 44 ° 58 ′ N , 1 ° 10 ′ W on one laid by the Rubis Mine and sank.
1944
- On September 26, 1944, the German auxiliary U-Jäger UJ 1106 (ex: Greenland) (464 BRT) ran about 16 nautical miles southwest of Stavanger at position 58 ° 45 ' N , 5 ° 24' E on one of the Rubis on 24 September 1944 laid mine and sank.
- On September 27, 1944, the German auxiliary U-Jäger UJ 1715 (ex: Lesum) (464 GRT), the German merchant ship Cläre Hugo Stinnes 1 (5,295 GRT) and the Norwegian freighter Knute Nelson (5,749 GRT) ran about 16 nautical miles southwest Stavanger in position 58 ° 45 ' N , 5 ° 24' O on the Rubis set on September 24, 1944 mines and decreased.
- On October 27, 1944, the German outpost boat V 5304 (ex: Seehund) ran at position 60 ° 55 ' N , 4 ° 40' E on a mine laid by the Rubis on October 18, 1944 and was badly damaged. The stranded boat was later repaired.
- On November 24, 1944, the Norwegian merchant ship Castor (1683 GRT) ran off Egersund on a mine laid by the Rubis on the same day and was damaged.
- On December 21, 1944, the German freighter Weichselland (formerly Latvian : Gundega ) (3,654 GRT), the German auxiliary U-Jäger UJ 1113 / KUJ 7 , UJ 1116 / KUJ 11 and UJ 1702 / KUJ 16 each with 970 GRT and The German clearing boat R 402 (140 t) off Feiestein-Rinne in Norway hit mines laid by the Rubis on December 19, 1944 and sank.
On July 18, 2006, the submarine was awarded the Ordre de la Liberation . The name successor Rubis and his crew accepted the award on behalf of the company .
See also
- Rubis (ship's name) , other ships that bear the name Rubis .
- List of French submarine classes
Web links
literature
- Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II , Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 5th edition 1996, ISBN 3-613-01252-9 .
Explanations
- ↑ In the French language Rubis means ruby .
- ↑ Le sous-marin Rubis, Les unités militaires - Musée de l'Ordre de la Liberation. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
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