NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Sirène	Q123		A C de la Loire, Nantes	2.1923	6.8.1925	1927	scuttled 27.11.1942
Naïade	Q124		A C de la Loire, Nantes	2.1923	20.10.1925	1927	scuttled 27.11.1942
Galathée	Q132		A C de la Loire, Nantes	7.1923	18.12.1925	1927	scuttled 27.11.1942
Nymphe	Q133		A C de la Loire, Nantes	1923	1.4.1926	1927	BU 1938

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	609 / 757
Length, m	64.0
Breadth, m	5.20
Draught, m	4.30
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Sulzer diesels / 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	1300 / 1000
Max speed, kts	14 / 7.5
Fuel, t	diesel oil 60
Endurance, nm(kts)	3500(7.5) / 75(5)
Armament	1 x 1 - 75/35 M1925, 2 x 1 - 8.80, 7 - 550 TT (2 bow, 2 ext bow, 1 ext stern, 1 x 2 ext, 13)
Complement	41
Diving depth operational, m	80

Standard scale images

Project history

First series of "600ton" submarines, built under 1922 programme. Loire-Simonot type. Successful medium submarines which have been well enough armed and manoeuvrable. Narrowness of internal compartments was considered as a lack, but at fortnight endurance it was not of great importance. Galatée on trials reached 14.3kts. She became fastest submarine of a "600ton" class.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Nymphe was broken up for unknown reasons in 1938.

All three survived submarines were scuttled at Toulon 27.11.1942. Later they were raised by Italians and Germans and lost under Allied air bombs; the first 24.11.1943 became Naïade, Sirène followed in February, 1943 and Galatée in June, 1944.

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