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Aurore class submarine

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Name
  
Aurore

Planned
  
8

In service
  
1946 - 1962

Completed
  
15

Aurore-class submarine

Builders
  
Le Havre, Nantes, Toulon, Chalon-sur-Saône, Rouen

Operators
  
French Navy  Kriegsmarine

The Aurore class was a class of coastal submarines designed for the French Navy. Some of the ships were captured by Nazi Germany after the Fall of France, most of them in an unfinished state.

Five of the submarines, Andromède, Astrée, Africaine, Artémis and Créole, were completed after the war, were commissioned in the French Navy and served into the 1960s. Andromède, Artémis and Créole were fitted with GUPPY sails and Submarine snorkels.

Ships

  • Aurore (Q192)
    • Builder: Toulon Ordered: Launched: 1939 Fate: Scuttled during the Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon in 1942
  • Créole (Q193)
    • Builder: Le Havre Ordered: Launched: 8 June 1940 Fate: Broken up in 1961
  • Bayadère (Q194)
    • Builder: Le Havre Ordered: Launched: Fate: Broken up in 1940 still on keel, never finished
  • Favorite (Q195)
    • Builder: Rouen Ordered: Launched: September 1938 Fate: taken by the Germans, scuttled in July 1944
  • Africaine (Q196)
    • Builder: Rouen Ordered: Launched: Fate: Broken up in 1963
  • Astrée (Q200)
    • Builder: Nantes Ordered: Launched: Fate: Broken up in 1965
  • Andromède (Q201)
    • Builder: Nantes Ordered: Launched: Fate: Broken up in 1965
  • Antigone (Q202)
    • Builder: Chalon-sur-Saône Ordered: Launched: Fate: Broken up in 1940 still on keel, never finished
  • Andromaque (Q203)
    • Builder: Rouen Ordered: Launched: Fate: Broken up in 1940 still on keel, never finished
  • Artémis (Q206)
    • Builder: Le Havre Ordered: Launched: Fate: Broken up in 1967
  • Armide (Q207)
    • Builder: Rouen Ordered: Launched: Fate: Broken up in 1940 still on keel, never finished
  • Hermione (Q211)
    • Builder: Le Havre Ordered: Launched: Fate: Broken up on keel
  • Gorgone (Q212)
    • Builder: Le Havre Ordered: Launched: Fate: Broken up on keel
  • Clorinde (Q213)
    • Builder: Nantes Ordered: Launched: Fate: Broken up in 1940 still on keel, never finished
  • Cornélie (Q214)
    • Builder: Ordered: Launched: Fate: Keel never laid

    References

    Aurore-class submarine Wikipedia
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