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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Roland Morillot	Q191	Q57	Arsenal de Cherbourg	1.1937	19.6.1940	---	scuttled at day of launch
La Praya	Q198	Q58	Arsenal de Cherbourg	3.1938	---	---	destroyed on the stocks 19.6.1940
La Martinique	Q199	Q59	Arsenal de Cherbourg	9.1938	---	---	destroyed on the stocks 19.6.1940
La Guadeloupe	Q204		A C Dubigeon, Nantes	6.1940	---	---	abandoned 6.1940
La Réunion	Q205	Q63	Arsenal de Cherbourg	6.1940	---	---	abandoned 6.1940

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	1810 / 2417
Length, m	102.5
Breadth, m	8.32
Draught, m	4.58
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Sulzer diesels / 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	12000 / 2300
Max speed, kts	22 / 9.5
Fuel, t	diesel oil 178
Endurance, nm(kts)	4400(10) / 85(5)
Armament	1 x 1 - 100/34 M1936, 1 x 2 - 13.2/76, 10 - 550 TT (4 bow, 1 x 4 ext, 1 x 2 (in quadruple two-caliber mounting), 20 - 21), 2 - 400 TT (1 x 2 in quadruple two-caliber mounting, 2)
Electronic equipment	hydrophone
Complement	70
Diving depth operational, m	100

Standard scale images

Project history

Project "Z2", improved version of Redoutable. Placing of 85t of fuel oil in ballast tanks became the basic improvement. Built under 1934 (1 boat), 1937 (1 boat) and 1938 (3 boats) programmes. 8 more boats were ordered under the 1940 programme. Two of them, Ile de France and Ile de Re, were begun in April. Following submarines were named but never laid down: La Guadeloupe, Ile de Yeu and La Réunion. It was supposed to order three more boats, but they never received names.

Incomplete submarines were blown up on slipways 19.6.1940 before occupancy of Cherbourg by Germans. Earlier this day Roland Morillot was launched.

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