Rubis 1940
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Saphir | Q145 | Arsenal de Toulon | 11.1925 | 20.12.1928 | 9.1930 | captured by Germany 8.12.1942, to Italy (FR112) | |
| Turquoise | Q146 | Arsenal de Toulon | 1926 | 16.5.1929 | 9.1930 | captured by Germany 8.12.1942, to Italy (FR116) | |
| Nautilus | Q152 | Arsenal de Toulon | 9.1926 | 21.3.1930 | 7.1937 | captured by Germany 8.12.1942, to Italy | |
| Rubis | Q158, 1950- S07 | Arsenal de Toulon | 1.1928 | 30.9.1931 | 4.1933 | FNFL 7.1940, stricken 4.1949 | |
| Diamant | Q173 | Arsenal de Toulon | 12.1929 | 18.5.1933 | 6.1934 | scuttled 27.11.1942 | |
| Perle | Q184 | Arsenal de Toulon | 1.1931 | 30.7.1935 | 3.1937 | FNFL 7.1940, sunk 8.7.1944 |
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Displacement standard, t |
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Displacement normal, t |
761 / 925 |
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Length, m |
64.9 pp 65.9 oa |
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Breadth, m |
7.20 |
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Draught, m |
4.30 |
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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. |
1300 / 1000 |
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Max speed, kts |
12 / 9 |
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Fuel, t |
diesel oil 75 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 7000(7.5) / 80(4) |
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Armament |
1 x 1 - 75/35 M1928, 1 x 2 - 13.2/76, 3 - 550 TT (2 bow, 1 x 1 (in triple two-caliber mounting), 5), 2 - 400 TT (1 x 2 in triple two-caliber mounting, 2), 32 mines |
| Complement | 42 |
| Diving depth operational, m | 80 |
Project history: Project "Q6". 1925 (2 submarines) and 1926-1929 (4 subs) programmes. Perhaps, the most successful submarines of French Navy. Double-hulled, mines were stored in vertical tubes out of a pressure hull.
Modernizations: m. b. 1943 - 1944, Rubis, Perle: - 1 x 2 - 13.2/76; + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV
Naval service: Rubis in July, 1940 has come over to the side of de Gaulle. Diamant was scuttled at Toulon 27.11.1942. She was raised by Germans and sunk again in 1944 by American air bombs. Perle was erroneously sunk by American aircraft in Atlantic 8.7.1944. Remaining submarines have been disarmed at Bizerte, where 8.12.1942 they were captured by Germans. Later they were transferred to Italians, and then again captured by Germans. Saphir was renamed FR112 and disarmed at Genoa, 15.9.1943 she was blown up by Germans at Naples. Two more submarines did not departure Bizerte. Turquoise, renamed FR116, was scuttled there 6.5.1943, and Nautilus was sunk by Allied aircraft 31.1.1943.
Turquoise
Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.
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