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ROLAND MORILLOT submarines

Roland Morillot

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Roland Morillot Q191 Q57 Arsenal de Cherbourg 1.1937 19.6.1940 --- scuttled at day of launch
La Praya Q198 Q58 Arsenal de Cherbourg 3.1938 --- --- destroyed on the stocks 19.6.1940
La Martinique Q199 Q59 Arsenal de Cherbourg 9.1938 --- --- destroyed on the stocks 19.6.1940
La Guadeloupe Q204   A C Dubigeon, Nantes 6.1940 --- --- abandoned 6.1940
La Réunion Q205 Q63 Arsenal de Cherbourg 6.1940 --- --- abandoned 6.1940

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

1810 / 2417

Length, m

102.5

Breadth, m

8.32

Draught, m

4.58

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Sulzer diesels / 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

12000 / 2300

Max speed, kts

22 / 9.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil 178

Endurance, nm(kts) 4400(10) / 85(5)

Armament

1 x 1 - 100/34 M1936, 1 x 2 - 13.2/76, 10 - 550 TT (4 bow, 1 x 4 ext, 1 x 2 (in quadruple two-caliber mounting), 20 - 21), 2 - 400 TT (1 x 2 in quadruple two-caliber mounting, 2)

Electronic equipment hydrophone
Complement 70
Diving depth operational, m 100

Project history: Project "Z2", improved version of Redoutable. Placing of 85t of fuel oil in ballast tanks became the basic improvement. Built under 1934 (1 boat), 1937 (1 boat) and 1938 (3 boats) programmes. 8 more boats were ordered under the 1940 programme. Two of them, Ile de France and Ile de Re, were begun in April. Following submarines were named but never laid down: La Guadeloupe, Ile de Yeu and La Réunion. It was supposed to order three more boats, but they never received names.

Incomplete submarines were blown up on slipways 19.6.1940 before occupancy of Cherbourg by Germans. Earlier this day Roland Morillot was launched.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

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