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sister-ship L'Aurore  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
UF1 (ex-L'Africaine)			A C de la Seine-Maritime, Le Trait, France	12.1937	7.12.1946	10.1949 // ---	incomplete to France 1945 (L'Africaine)
UF2 (ex-La Favorite)			A C de la Seine-Maritime, Le Trait, France	12/1937	9.1938	11.1942	stricken 7.1944
UF3 (ex-L'Astrée)			A C Dubigeon, Nantes, France	12.1938	3.5.1946	4.1949 // ---	incomplete to France 1945 (L'Astrée)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	893 / 1170
Length, m	71.8 pp 73.5 oa
Breadth, m	6.50
Draught, m	4.20
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Sulzer or Schneider diesels / 2 Schneider-Westinghouse electric motors
Power, h. p.	3000 / 1400
Max speed, kts	14.5 / 9.3
Fuel, t	diesel oil 101
Endurance, nm(kts)	2250(15) / 80(5)
Armament	1 x 1 - 88/42 SK C/35, 1 x 1 - 20/65 C/38, 6 - 550 TT (4 bow, 2 stern, 8)
Electronic equipment	FuMO 30 radar, GHG hydrophone, FuMB 1 Metox ECM suite
Complement	44
Diving depth operational, m	100

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Project history

Former French submarines of Aurore class, captured incomplete 13.6.1940 by German troops; completion under German standards of UF2 begun 31.10.1940. Exact data of conversion is not known: most likely, trainable TT was not installed, and German origin gun was installed. 5.5.1941 she was renamed UF2 and commissioned by Kriegsmarine 5.11.1942. Sister-ships L`Africaine and L`Astree received German numbers UF1 and UF3, but never commissioned and completed after war for French Navy.

Modernizations

1943-1944, presumably: - FuMB 1 Metox ECM suite; + FuMB 3 Bali, FuMB 6 Palau ECM suites

Naval service

UF2 was stricken 5.7.1944 and in 1945, presumably, scuttled at Gotenhafen.

L'Aurore