French submarine Vendémiaire (Q59)

For other ships of the same name, see French ship Vendémiaire.

History
Vendémiaire raising steam on the surface
France
Name:	Vendémiaire
Namesake:	Vendémiaire
Builder:	Arsenal de Cherbourg
Laid down:	1906
Launched:	7 July 1907
Fate:	Sunk by collision with Saint Louis, 8 June 1912
General characteristics (as built)
Class & type:	Pluviôse-class submarine
Displacement:	404 t (398 long tons) (surfaced) 553 t (544 long tons) (submerged)
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)
Installed power:	700 PS (510 kW; 690 bhp) (steam) 2 × Du Temple boilers 400 PS (290 kW; 390 bhp) (electric motors)
Propulsion:	2 × shafts; 2 × Triple-expansion steam engines 2 × electric motors
Speed:	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) (surfaced) 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) (submerged)
Range:	1,000 nmi (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) at 8.5 knots (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph) (surfaced) 27 nmi (50 km; 31 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) (submerged)
Complement:	2 officers and 23 crewmen
Armament:	1 × twin 450 mm (17.7 in) Drzewiecki drop collar 4 × external 450 mm torpedo launchers (2 × facing forward, 2 × aft)

Vendémiaire was a Pluviôse-class submarine built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) in the late 1900s. She was sunk with all hands when she was rammed by the pre-dreadnought battleship Saint Louis on 8 June 1912 while on maneuvers off the Casquets in the English Channel.

Notes

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

Pluviôse-class submarine

Ampère Berthelot Cugnot Floréal Fresnel Fructidor Gay-Lussac Germinal Giffard Messidor Monge Papin Pluviôse Priarial Thermidor Vendémiaire Ventôse Watt

Preceded by: Circé class Followed by: Brumaire class

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