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MINERVE 2nd class submarines (1936 - 1939)


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Minerve

Ships


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


Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement normal, t

662 / 856

Length, m

68.1 pp

Breadth, m

5.62

Draught, m

4.03

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Normand-Vickers diesels / 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

1800 / 1230

Max speed, kts

14.5 / 9

Fuel, t

diesel oil 51

Endurance, nm(kts)2000(10) / 85(5)
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 equipmenthydrophone
Complement42
Diving depth operational, m80


Standard scale images


<i>Junon</i> 1940
Junon 1940


Graphics


<i>Minerve</i>
Minerve
<i>Junon</i> postwar <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>
Junon postwar Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.


Project history

Project "Т2". 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 Junon and Minerve in June, 1940 were withdrawn to Britain and later came over to the side of "Free France".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.



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