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Requin prewar  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
FR111 (ex-Phoque)			Arsenal de Brest, France	1924	16.3.1926	5.1928 // 1.1943	sunk 28.2.1943
FR113 (ex-Requin)			Arsenal de Cherbourg, France	1923	19.7.1924	5.1926 // ---	scuttled under incomplete conversion 9.9.1943
FR114 (ex-Espadon)			Arsenal de Toulon, France	1924	28.5.1926	12.1927 // ---	scuttled under incomplete conversion 13.9.1943
FR115 (ex-Dauphin)			Arsenal de Toulon, France	1923	2.4.1925	11.1927 // ---	scuttled under incomplete conversion 15.9.1943

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	947
Displacement normal, t	1150 / 1441
Length, m	78.3
Breadth, m	6.84
Draught, m	5.10
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Sulzer or Schneider diesels / 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	2900 / 1800
Max speed, kts	15 / 9
Fuel, t	diesel oil 116 + 51 in ballast tanks = 167
Endurance, nm(kts)	7700(9) / 70(5)
Armament	2 x 1 - 13.2/76
Military load	50 t of dry cargo + 145 t of petrol
Complement	51
Diving depth operational, m	80

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Project history

After Allied landing in the North Africa in November, 1942 German troops captured French ships based at Bizerte and transferred nine submarines to Italy in December, 1942.

French Requin class submarines Phoque, Requin, Espadon and Dauphin, renamed FR111, FR113, FR114 and FR115 respectively. At once they were put on conversion to transports. All original armament was removed, only two 13.2mm AA MGs were left only. Submarines could carry 50t of dry cargo and 145t of fuel. Only FR111 was commissioned by Italians. Remaining three boats in September, 1943 were scuttled on dockyards by crews or sunk by Germans.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

28.2.1943 FR111 was sunk by Allied bombers.