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