Junon 1940
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Minerve | Q185, 1940- P26 | Q54 | Arsenal de Cherbourg | 1.1931 | 23.10.1934 | 9.1936 | FNFL 6.1940, wrecked 19.9.1945 |
| Junon | Q186, 1945- S05, 1950- S605 | A C Augustin-Normand, Le Havre | 1.1932 | 15.9.1935 | 9.1937 | FNFL 6.1940, sold 12.1954 | |
| Vénus | Q187 | 75 | A C de la Seine-Maritime, Le Trait | 1.1932 | 6.4.1935 | 11.1936 | scuttled 27.11.1942 |
| Iris | Q188, 1945- S06 | A C Dubigeon, Nantes | 1.1932 | 23.9.1934 | 9.1936 | interned 12.1942, returned 5.1945, sold 2.1950 | |
| Pallas | Q189 | A C Augustin-Normand, Le Havre | 3.1936 | 25.8.1938 | 1939 | scuttled 9.11.1942 | |
| Cérès | Q190 | 85 | A C de la Seine-Maritime, Le Trait | 3.1936 | 9.12.1938 | 1939 | scuttled 9.11.1942 |
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Displacement standard, t |
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Displacement normal, t |
662 / 856 |
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Length, m |
68.1 pp |
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Breadth, m |
5.62 |
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Draught, m |
4.03 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 Normand-Vickers diesels / 2 electric motors |
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Power, h. p. |
1800 / 1230 |
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Max speed, kts |
14.5 / 9 |
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Fuel, t |
diesel oil 51 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 2000(10) / 85(5) |
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Armament |
1 x 1 - 75/35 M1928, 2 x 1 - 13.2/76, 6 - 550 TT (4 bow, 2 aft, 6), 3 - 400 TT (1 x 3 ext, 3) |
| Electronic equipment | hydrophone |
| Complement | 42 |
| Diving depth operational, m | 80 |
Project history: Project "Ò2". 1930 (4 submarines) and 1936 (2 submarines) programmes. First series of "standard" submarines. The design was grounded on drawings of "630ton" boats, since them there was a withdrawal from practice of ordering of ship design to private yards in favour of standardization.
Modernizations: m. b. 1943 - 1944, all survived: - 2 x 1 - 13.2/76; + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV
early 1950s, Junon: - 1 x 1 - 75/35, 1 x 1 - 20/70
1944, Junon: + radar, sonar
Naval service: Damaged Iris escaped from Toulon in November, 1942 and was interned at Barcelona till end of war (later she was transferred to Cartagena). Junon and Minerve in June, 1940 were withdrawn to Britain and later came over to the side of "Free France".
Cérès and Pallas were scuttled at Oran 9.11.1942 during Allied landing in the North Africa. Later they were salvaged but never commissioned again. Minerve 10.10.1943 was hard damaged in La Manche as result of erroneous attack of patrol Canadian B-24 bomber and laid up into reserve. After war, 19.9.1945, she was lost in navigating accident at British coast.
Minerve
Junon postwar
Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.
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