French submarine Ariane (1914)

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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:

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.

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

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "French Navy". Naval History. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  2. ↑ "Ariane". Uboat.net. Retrieved 6 September 2016.

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