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French submarine Floréal

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Name
  
Floréal

Laid down
  
1906

Identification
  
Pennant number Q54

Launched
  
18 April 1908

Builder
  
Arsenal de Cherbourg

Completed
  
19 June 1909

Construction started
  
1906

Length
  
51 m

French submarine Floréal

Namesake
  
The second month of Spring in the French Republican Calendar

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.

References

French submarine Floréal Wikipedia