Sirène class (1925)
Sirène class 600 ton type A. |
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General data | |
Ship type : | Submarine |
Construction series: | 600 ton type |
Navy : | French Navy |
Builder : | A. Chantier de la Loire ( Saint-Nazaire ) |
Units: | 4th |
Boats of the class | |
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Technical specifications | |
Crew: | 41 men |
Displacement : |
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Length : | 64.00 m |
Width: | 5.2 m |
Draft : | 4.3 m |
Drive : | |
Speed : | |
Fuel supply: | 60-65 t |
Driving range: |
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Diving depth : | 80 m |
Armament | |
Artillery : | 1 × 76 mm L / 35 deck gun |
Air defense : | 2 × 8 mm MG (2 × 1) |
Torpedoes : |
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The Sirène class had an average U-boat - ship class of the French Navy . In the French type classification of the time, it was Class 2 boats . Between 1923 and 1927 four boats were built at A. Chantier de la Loire in Saint-Nazaire . The class is also known as 600-ton Type A designated.
With the exception of Ondine , which sank in an accident in 1928 , all boats drove for Vichy France during World War II and were sunk in Toulon after the German invasion of southern France in November 1942 in order to prevent the German navy from accessing them. The self-submerged boats were lifted by the Italian Navy .
Boats of the class
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Galatée
- Keel laying : February 1, 1924
- Launched : December 18, 1925
- Whereabouts: self- sunk in Toulon on November 22, 1942 , later lifted by the Italians. Sunk by Allied aircraft in Toulon on June 22, 1944.
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Naïade
- Keel laying: November 23, 1923
- Launched: October 20, 1925
- Whereabouts: self-sunk on November 27, 1942 in Toulon. Lifted by the Italians on March 17, 1943, but sunk again on April 17, 1943, lifted again on July 17, 1943. Sunk in an Allied air raid on November 24, 1943.
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Ondine
- Sunk in a collision in 1928.
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Siren
- Keel laying: November 28, 1923
- Launched: August 6, 1925
- Whereabouts: self-sunk on November 27, 1942 in Toulon. Lifted by the Italians in March 1943, but not repaired. Sunk by Allied aircraft in Toulon on June 22, 1944.
See also
- Sirène (ship name) - other French ships with the name Sirène
literature
- Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II . 5th edition. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-613-01252-9
Web links
- 600 tons -Type A in uboat.net (English)
Remarks
- ↑ a b c uboat.net assigns Ondine to the Ariane class . Erminio Bagnasco indicates the ondine as a Sirène class boat in submarines during World War II . Both sources confirm the loss of the Ondine in 1928 and that an Orion- class boat received the same name.
- ↑ The French Navy distinguished 3 classes of submarines: 1st class boats were ocean-going boats. 2nd class boats were smaller coastal boats. 3rd class boats were mine layers .