French submarine Floréal

A postcard of sister ship Monge underway before 1915
History
France
Name: Floréal
Namesake: The second month of Spring in the French Republican Calendar
Builder: Arsenal de Cherbourg
Laid down: 1906
Launched: 18 April 1908
Completed: 19 June 1909
Identification: Pennant number: Q54
Fate: Sunk in a collision, 2 August 1918
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type: Pluviôse-class submarine
Displacement:
  • 404 t (398 long tons) (surfaced)
  • 553 t (544 long tons) (submerged)
Length: 51.12 m (167 ft 9 in) (o/a)
Beam: 4.96 m (16 ft 3 in)
Draft: 3.15 m (10 ft 4 in)
Installed power:
Propulsion:
Speed:
  • 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) (surfaced)
  • 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) (submerged)
Range:
  • 1,000 nmi (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) at 8.5 knots (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph) (surfaced)
  • 27 nmi (50 km; 31 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) (submerged)
Complement: 2 officers and 23 crewmen
Armament:

Floréal was one of 18 Pluviôse-class submarines built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

On 2 August 1918, Floréal collided with the Royal Navy armed boarding steamer HMS Hazel in the Aegean Sea and sank.[1]

See also

Citations

  1. ↑ "French Navy". Naval History. Retrieved 21 February 2013.

Bibliography

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