French submarine Ariane (1914)

The French submarine Ariane was one of eight Amphitrite-class submarines built for the French Navy during the 1910s and completed during World War I.

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Ariane.
A colorized postcard of sister ship Andromaque
History
France
Name: Ariane
Builder: Arsenal de Cherbourg
Launched: 5 September 1914
Commissioned: 20 April 1916
Identification: Pennant number: Q100
Fate: Sunk, 19 June 1917
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type: Amphitrite-class submarine
Displacement:
  • 424 t (417 long tons) (surfaced)
  • 614 t (604 long tons) (submerged)
Length: 53.95 m (177 ft 0 in) (o/a)
Beam: 5.41 m (17 ft 9 in) (deep)
Draft: 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in)
Installed power:
Propulsion: 2 shafts
Speed:
  • 12–13 knots (22–24 km/h; 14–15 mph) (surfaced)
  • 9.5 knots (17.6 km/h; 10.9 mph) (submerged)
Range:
  • 1,300 nmi (2,400 km; 1,500 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) (surfaced)
  • 100 nmi (190 km; 120 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) (submerged)
Test depth: 40 m (131 ft 3 in)
Complement: 27 crew
Armament:

During World War I, Ariane was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Cap Bon, French Tunisia, on 19 June 1917 by the Imperial German Navy submarine SM UC-22.[1][2]

Divers on the wreck of the Ariane Q100 with the engine compartment hatch open

The wreck of the submarine Ariane was discovered[3] by divers and identified on September 21, 2020 off Ras Adar at a depth of 50 m.

Notes
  1. "French Navy". Naval History. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  2. "Ariane". Uboat.net. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  3. "Exclusif : Découverte en Tunisie, de l'épave d'un sous-marin français disparu". Réalités Online (in French). 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2020-09-27.

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