Rubis 1940
| Name | No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| Saphir | Arsenal de Toulon | 11/1925 | 20/12/1928 | 9/1930 | captured by Germany 8/12/1942, to Italy (FR112) | |
| Turquoise | Arsenal de Toulon | 1926 | 16/5/1929 | 9/1930 | captured by Germany 8/12/1942, to Italy (FR116) | |
| Nautilus | Arsenal de Toulon | 9/1926 | 21/3/1930 | 7/1937 | captured by Germany 8/12/1942, to Italy | |
| Rubis | S07 | Arsenal de Toulon | 1/1928 | 30/9/1931 | 4/1933 | FNFL 7/1940, stricken 4/1949 |
| Diamant | Arsenal de Toulon | 12/1929 | 18/5/1933 | 6/1934 | scuttled 27/11/1942 | |
| Perle | 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 |
Normand-Vickers diesels / 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 |
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), 1 x 1 - 75/35 M1928, 1 x 2 - 13.2/76, 32 mines |
| Complement | 42 |
| Diving depth operational, m | 80 |
Ship project history: Project "Q6". 1925 (2 submarines) and 1926-1929 (4 subs) programs. 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
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
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