French submarine Dupuy de Lôme (Q105)

For other ships of the same name, see French ship Dupuy de Lôme.
History
France
Name: Dupuy de Lôme
Namesake: Henri Dupuy de Lôme
Ordered: 1913
Builder: Arsenal de Toulon
Laid down: 1914
Launched: 9 September 1915
Commissioned: July 1916
Decommissioned: July 1935
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Class & type: Dupuy de Lôme class
Displacement: 833 tons surfaced, 1287 tons submerged
Length: 75 m (246 ft)
Beam: 6.4 m (21 ft)
Draught: 3.6 m (12 ft)
Propulsion:
  • 2 shafts
  • Reciprocating steam engines with 2 boilers (3500 hp) plus electric motors (1640 hp).
  • Replaced by Krupp diesel engines after 1919
Speed: 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) surfaced, 11 knots submerged
Range: 2,350 nmi (4,350 km; 2,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph), 120 nm at 5 knots submerged
Complement: 43
Armament: 8 - 450mm torpedo tubes , 1 - 75mm gun, 1 - 47mm gun

Dupuy de Lôme (Q105) was the lead ship of her class of submarine of the French Navy. The vessel was named after the French naval architect Henri Dupuy de Lôme. She had one sister ship, Sané. The boats were designed by M. Hutter and were enlargements of his Archimede-class submarine design.

Dupuy de Lôme was laid down in Toulon in 1913, launched on 9 September 1915 and commissioned in July 1916. She was decommissioned on 24 February 1935, and sold for scrap in Brest on 6 August 1938.[1]

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