Gustave Zédé-class submarine

Class overview
A Gustave Zédé-class submarine in the background behind the ex-German SMS U-139 in French service as Halbronn, Brest, France, February 1919
Name:	Gustave Zédé
Builders:	Arsenal de Cherbourg
Operators:	French Navy
Preceded by:	Clorinde class
Succeeded by:	Amphitrite class
Built:	1911–16
In commission:	1914–37
Completed:	2
Scrapped:	2
General characteristics (as built)
Type:	Submarine
Displacement:	820–849 t (807–836 long tons) (surfaced) 1,047–1,098 t (1,030–1,081 long tons) (submerged)
Length:	74 m (242 ft 9 in) (o/a)
Beam:	6 m (19 ft 8 in) (deep)
Draft:	3.75 m (12 ft 4 in)
Installed power:	1,640 PS (1,210 kW; 1,620 bhp) (electric motors) 3,500 PS (2,600 kW; 3,500 bhp) (Du Temple boilers) or 2,400 PS (1,800 kW; 2,400 bhp) (diesels)
Propulsion:	2 × shafts; 2 × electric motors 2 × Diesel engines or 2 × Vertical triple-expansion steam engines
Speed:	17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) (surfaced) 10–11 knots (19–20 km/h; 12–13 mph) (submerged)
Range:	1,400–3,120 nmi (2,590–5,780 km; 1,610–3,590 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) (surfaced) 90–135 nmi (167–250 km; 104–155 mi) at 4–5 knots (7.4–9.3 km/h; 4.6–5.8 mph) (submerged)
Complement:	47 officers and crewmen
Armament:	2 × 450 mm (17.7 in) bow torpedo tubes 3 × twin external 450 mm torpedo launchers

The Gustave Zédé class was a pair of submarines built for the French Navy just before World War I.

Ships

Ship	Laid down	Launched	Completed
Gustave Zédé (Q92)	14 February 1911	20 May 1913	10 October 1914
Néréide (Q93)	14 February 1911	9 May 1914	31 October 1916

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 (2000). Des Clorinde (1912-1916) aux Diane (1912–1917). L'odyssée technique et humaine du sous-marin en France (in French) 3–1. Bourg-en-Bresse, France: Marines édition. ISBN 2-909675-54-8.
Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). "Classement par types". Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 2, 1870 - 2006. Toulon: Roche. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

External links

Gustave Zédé class on navypedia.org

Gustave Zédé-class submarine

Gustave Zédé Néréide

Preceded by: Clorinde class Followed by: Amphitrite class List of submarine classes of the French Navy

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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