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

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Aurore	Q192		Arsenal de Toulon	12.1935	26.7.1939	6.1940	scuttled 27.11.1942
La Créole	Q193, 1950- S606		A C Augustin-Normand, Le Havre	12.1937	8.6.1940, 8.5.1946 (2nd time)	1949	BU 1961
La Bayadère	Q194		A C Augustin-Normand, Le Havre	12.1937	---	---	BU on slip 6.1940
La Favorite	Q195	88	A C de la Seine-Maritime, Le Trait	12.1937	5.11.1942	11.1942 // ---	incomplete to Germany (UF2)
L`Africaine	Q196, 1950- S607	89	A C de la Seine-Maritime, Le Trait	12.1937	7.12.1946	10.1949	BU 1963
L`Astrée	Q200, 1950- S608		A C Dubigeon, Nantes	11.1938	3.5.1946	4.1949	BU 1966
L`Andromède	Q201, 1950- S601		A C Dubigeon, Nantes	11.1938	17.11.1949	4.1953	BU 1966
L`Antigone	Q202		Schneider, Chalon-sur-Saône	11.1938	---	---	abandoned 1940
L`Andromaque	Q203	96	A C de la Seine-Maritime, Le Trait	11.1938	---	---	abandoned 1940
L`Artémise	Q206, 1950- S603		A C Augustin-Normand, Le Havre	5.1939	28.6.1942	2.1954	BU 1967
L`Armide	Q207	98	A C de la Seine-Maritime, Le Trait	5.1939	---	---	abandoned 1940
L`Hermione	Q211		A C Augustin-Normand, Le Havre	2.1940	---	---	abandoned 1940
La Gorgone	Q212		A C Augustin-Normand, Le Havre	3.1940	---	---	abandoned 1940
La Clorinde	Q213		A C Dubigeon, Nantes	3.1940	8.7.1943	---	cancelled 1940
La Cornélie	Q214		A C Dubigeon, Nantes	5/1940	---	---	cancelled 1940

Technical data

Data variant	Aurore	postwar completion
Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	893 / 1170	970 / 1250
Length, m	71.8 pp 73.5 oa	71.8 pp 73.5 oa
Breadth, m	6.50	6.50
Draught, m	4.20	4.20
No of shafts	2	2
Machinery	2 Sulzer or Schneider diesels / 2 electric motors	2 Sulzer diesels / 2 electric motors L`Africaine: 2 Schneider diesels / 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	3000 / 1400	3000 / 1400
Max speed, kts	14.5 / 9	15.5 / 9.3 S601, 603: 15.5 / 10.3
Fuel, t	diesel oil 101	diesel oil 101
Endurance, nm(kts)	5600(10) / 80(5)	8800(10) / 80(5)
Armament	1 x 1 - 100/34 M1936, 2 x 1 - 13.2/76, 9 - 550 TT (4 bow, 2 aft, 1 x 3 ext, 10 - 11)	10 - 550 TT (4 bow, 4 amidships, 2 aft, 10 - 11) S606 - 608: 1 x 1 - 88/45 SK C/35, 2 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 10 - 550 TT (4 bow, 4 amidships, 2 aft, 10 - 11)
Electronic equipment	hydrophone	radar, sonar
Complement	44	62
Diving depth operational, m	100	100

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Project history

Project "Y3". 1934 (lead ship), 1937 (4 boats) and 1938 (10 boats) programmes. One more design developing "630ton" type. The basic differences consisted in increase in a diving depth to 100m and strenghtened armament. It is necessary to mark transition to uniform torpedo calibre.

Only lead Aurore was commissioned before armistice. Incomplete La Créole was towed to Britain. L`Andromède was captured by Germans. Both boats were completed only after war. L`Africaine, La Favorite and L`Astré also were captured by Germans; they received names UF1, UF2 and UF3 respectively. Only UF2 was commissioned, served as training submarine and sunk by Allied aircraft at Gdynia 5.7.1944.

Remaining incomplete submarines were blown up on slipways in June, 1940.

After war 5 incomplete submarines were completed to a modified design. 3 submarines (La Créole, L`Africaine and L`Astrée) received German 88mm gun and 10 TT instead of original 9. Submarines had 4 internal bow and two internal stern tubes and also external tubes installed in pairs fwd and aft of the fin. L`Andromède and L`Artémise were more redesigned, they received also newly designed fin with snorkel. L`Artémise was commissioned with new fire control system destined for new Narval class.

Modernizations

Early 1950s, La Créole, L`Africaine and L`Astrée: received snorkel.

Naval service

Aurore was scuttled by crew at Toulon 27.11.1942.



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