Diane-class submarine (1930)

Group of submarines built for the French navy during the 1930s Not to be confused with Diane-class submarine (1916).

Class overview

Name	Diane class
Operators	French Navy
Preceded by	600 Series submarines
Succeeded by	Orion class
Built	1930–1933
In commission	1931–1946
Completed	9
Lost	6
Scrapped	3
General characteristics (as built)
Type	Submarine
Displacement	571 long tons (580 t) (surfaced) 809 long tons (822 t) (submerged)
Length	64.4 m (211 ft 3 in)
Beam	6.2 m (20 ft 4 in)
Draught	4.3 m (14 ft 1 in)
Installed power	1,400 bhp (1,000 kW) (diesels) 1,000 shp (750 kW) (electric motors)
Propulsion	2 × diesel engines 2 × electric motors
Speed	14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) (surfaced) 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) (submerged)
Range	4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) (surfaced) 85 nmi (157 km; 98 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) (submerged)
Complement	41
Armament	3 × 550 mm (21.7 in) bow torpedo tubes 3 × 400 mm (15.7 in) external torpedo tubes 1 × 76.2 mm (3.0 in) deck gun

The Diane-class submarines were a group of nine submarines built for the French Navy during the 1930s. Six boats were sunk during the Second World War and the others were sold for scrap in 1946.

Ships

SOURCES

Ship	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
Diane	4 January 1928	15 May 1930	1 September 1932	Scuttled 9 November 1942
Méduse	1 January 1928	26 August 1930	1 September 1932	Wrecked 10 November 1942
Antiope	28 December 1928	19 August 1930	12 October 1933	Stricken 26 April 1946
Amphitrite	8 August 1928	20 December 1930	8 June 1933	Sunk 8 November 1942
Amazone	14 January 1929	28 December 1931	12 October 1933	Stricken 26 April 1946
Orphée	22 August 1929	10 November 1931	8 June 1933	Stricken 15 April 1946
Oréade	15 August 1929	25 May 1932	14 December 1933	Sunk 8 November 1942
La Sibylle	10 January 1931	28 January 1932	22 December 1934	Missing 8 November 1942
La Psyché	26 December 1930	4 August 1932	23 December 1933	Sunk 8 November 1942

Notes

Bibliography

Moulin, Jean (April–May 2022). "Les sous-marins type Antiope des budgets 1927, 1928, 1929" [The Antope-Class Submarines of the 1927, 1928, 1929 Budgets]. Navires & Histoire (in French) (130): 66–75. ISSN 1280-4290.
Roberts, John (1980). "France". In Chesneau, Roger (ed.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. New York: Mayflower Books. pp. 255–279. ISBN 0-8317-0303-2.

External links

French Submarines: 1863 - Now
Sous-marins Français 1863 - (in French)

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Diane Méduse Antiope Amphitrite Amazone Orphée Oréade Sibylle La Psyché
Preceded by: Orion class Followed by: Requin class
List of submarines of the French Navy

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Aircraft carriers	Béarn Joffre Dixmude
Battleships	Courbet Bretagne Dunkerque Richelieu Alsace
Heavy cruisers	Duquesne Suffren Algérie Saint-Louis
Light cruisers	Duguay-Trouin Jeanne d'Arc Émile Bertin La Galissonnière De Grasse
Large destroyers	Chacal Guépard Aigle Vauquelin Le Fantasque Mogador
Destroyers	Bourrasque L'Adroit Le Hardi
Torpedo boats	La Melpomène Le Fier La Combattante
Escorteurs	French Flower Cannon PC-461 River
Submarines	Sirène Ariane Circé Argonaute Orion Diane Saphir Requin Redoutable Surcouf Minerve Aurore Curie Narval
Avisos	Arabis Ville d'Ys Arras Scarpe Bougainville Élan Amiral Mouchez Chamois
Other	Pluton (minelaying cruiser) Commandant Teste (seaplane tender) Jules Verne (submarine tender) Le Gladiateur (netlayer) Sans Souci (seaplane tender)
LL Lend-Lease S Single ship of class C Completed after the war X Cancelled

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