Circé-class submarine (1907)

Class overview
Name: Circé class
Builders: Arsenal de Toulon
Operators:  French Navy
Preceded by: Émeraude class
Succeeded by: Pluviôse class
Built: 190509
In commission: 190918
Completed: 2
Lost: 2
General characteristics (as built)
Type: Submarine
Displacement:
  • 361 t (355 long tons) (surfaced)
  • 498 t (490 long tons) (submerged)
Length: 47.13 m (154 ft 8 in) (o/a)
Beam: 4.9 m (16 ft 1 in)
Draft: 3.24 m (10 ft 8 in)
Installed power:
  • 630 PS (460 kW; 620 bhp) (diesels)
  • 360 PS (260 kW; 360 bhp) (electric motors)
Propulsion:
Speed:
  • 11.9 knots (22.0 km/h; 13.7 mph) (surfaced)
  • 7.7 knots (14.3 km/h; 8.9 mph) (submerged)
Range:
  • 2,160 nmi (4,000 km; 2,490 mi) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) surfaced
  • 44 nmi (81 km; 51 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) submerged
Test depth: 40 m (130 ft)
Complement: 2 officers and 20 crewmen
Armament: 4 × external 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo launchers (2 × forward, 2 × aft)

The Circé-class submarines were a pair of submarines built for the French Navy during the first decade of the 20th century. One boat was sunk in a collision before the First World War and the other was torpedoed and sunk in the last year of the war.

Ships

Ship Laid down Launched[1] Completed
Calypso (Q48) 1905 22 October 1907 1909
Circé (Q47) 13 September 1907

Notes

  1. Gardiner & Gray, p. 208

Bibliography

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/19/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.