French submarine Gay-Lussac
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Name: | Gay-Lussac |
Builder: | Arsenal de Toulon |
Laid down: | 1906 |
Launched: | 17 March 1910 |
Completed: | 14 January 1911 |
Struck: | 1 December 1919 |
Identification: | Pennant number: Q69 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class & type: | Pluviôse-class submarine |
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Length: | 51.12 m (167 ft 9 in) (o/a) |
Beam: | 4.96 m (16 ft 3 in) |
Draft: | 3.15 m (10 ft 4 in) |
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Complement: | 2 officers and 23 crewmen |
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Gay-Lussac was one of 18 Pluviôse-class submarines built for the French Navy in 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.
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