French submarine Dupuy de Lôme

The French submarine Dupuy de Lôme was the lead boat of the class of submarines built for the French Navy.

History
France
Name: Dupuy de Lôme
Namesake: Henri Dupuy de Lôme
Ordered: 1913
Builder: Arsenal de Toulon
Laid down: 1 September 1913
Launched: 9 September 1915
Commissioned: 22 July 1916
Stricken: 29 July 1935
Identification: Pennant number: Q105
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type: Dupuy de Lôme-class submarine
Displacement:
  • 853 t (840 long tons) (surfaced)
  • 1,291 t (1,271 long tons) (submerged)
Length: 75 m (246 ft 1 in) (o/a)
Beam: 6.39 m (21 ft 0 in) (deep)
Draft: 3.6 m (11 ft 10 in)
Installed power:
Propulsion: 2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed:
  • 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) (surfaced)
  • 10.9 knots (20.2 km/h; 12.5 mph) (submerged)
Range:
  • 2,350 nmi (4,350 km; 2,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) (surfaced)
  • 120 nmi (220 km; 140 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) (submerged)
Test depth: 50 m (164 ft 1 in)
Complement: 41 crew
Armament:

Dupuy de Lôme, named after the French naval architect Henri Dupuy de Lôme, was laid down in Toulon in 1913, launched on 9 September 1915 and commissioned in July 1916. She was decommissioned on 24 February 1935, and sold for scrap in Brest on 6 August 1938.

See also

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