NAVYPEDIA

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

Ships

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

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	761 / 925
Length, m	64.9 pp 65.9 oa
Breadth, m	7.20
Draught, m	4.30
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Normand-Vickers diesels / 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	1300 / 1000
Max speed, kts	12 / 9
Fuel, t	diesel oil 75
Endurance, nm(kts)	7000(7.5) / 80(4)
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

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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.



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