French submarine Archimède

Class overview

Name:	Archimède
Operators:	French Navy
Preceded by:	Brumaire class
Succeeded by:	Mariotte
Built:	1908–10
In commission:	1910–19
Completed:	1
Scrapped:	1
History
France
Name:	Archimède
Namesake:	Archimedes
Builder:	Arsenal de Cherbourg
Laid down:	2 January 1908
Launched:	4 August 1909
Completed:	22 September 1910
Struck:	12 November 1919
Identification:	Pennant number: Q73
Fate:	Sold for scrap, 4 October 1921
General characteristics (as built)
Type:	Submarine
Displacement:	580 t (571 long tons) (surfaced) 809 t (796 long tons) (submerged)
Length:	60.9 m (199 ft 10 in) (o/a)
Beam:	5.63 m (18 ft 6 in) (deep)
Draft:	4.58 m (15 ft 0 in)
Installed power:	840 PS (620 kW; 830 bhp) (diesels) 610 PS (450 kW; 600 bhp) (electric motors)
Propulsion:	2 × shafts; 2 × diesel engines 2 × electric motors
Speed:	14.9 knots (27.6 km/h; 17.1 mph) (surfaced) 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) (submerged)
Range:	2,800 nmi (5,200 km; 3,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) (surfaced) 99 nmi (183 km; 114 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) (submerged)
Complement:	3 officers and 25 crewmen
Armament:	1 × 450 mm (17.7 in) bow torpedo tube 2 × single 450 mm Drzewiecki drop collars 4 × single external 450 mm torpedo launchers

Archimède was the only submarine of her class built for the French Navy during the first decade of the 20th century.

Citations

Bibliography

Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
Garier, Gérard (2002). A l'épreuve de la Grande Guerre. L'odyssée technique et humaine du sous-marin en France (in French) 3–2. Bourg-en-Bresse, France: Marines édition. ISBN 2-909675-81-5.
Garier, Gérard (1998). Des Émeraude (1905-1906) au Charles Brun (1908–1933). L'odyssée technique et humaine du sous-marin en France (in French) 2. Bourg-en-Bresse, France: Marines édition. ISBN 2-909675-34-3.

External links

Archimède on navypedia.org

French naval ship classes of World War I

Dreadnought battleships	Courbet Bretagne Normandie^X Lyon^X

Pre-dreadnought battleships	Brennus^S Charles Martel^S Carnot^S Jauréguiberry^S Masséna^S Bouvet^S Charlemagne Henri IV^S Iéna^S Suffren^S République Liberté Danton

Armoured cruisers	Dupuy de Lôme^S Amiral Charner Pothuau^S Jeanne d'Arc^S Gueydon Dupleix Gloire Léon Gambetta Jules Michelet^S Ernest Renan^S Edgar Quinet

Protected cruisers	Amiral Cécille^S Forbin Troude Linois Friant Descartes D'Assas D'Entrecasteaux^S Guichen^S Châteaurenault^S Destrées Jurien de la Gravière^S

Destroyers	Durandal Framée Pertuisane Arquebuse Claymore Branlebas Spahi Voltigeur Chasseur Bouclier Bisson Enseigne Roux Aventurier Arabe

Submarines	Sirène Aigrette Oméga Émeraude Circé Pluviôse Brumaire Archimède^S Mariotte^S Amiral Bourgois^S Charles Brun^S Clorinde Gustave Zédé Amphitrite Bellone Dupuy de Lôme Diane Fulton Lagrange Armide O'Byrne

Seaplane carriers	Foudre^S

S Single ship of class C Completed after the war X Cancelled

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