Circé-class submarine (1907)

Class overview

Name:	Circé class
Builders:	Arsenal de Toulon
Operators:	French Navy
Preceded by:	Émeraude class
Succeeded by:	Pluviôse class
Built:	1905–09
In commission:	1909–18
Completed:	2
Lost:	2
General characteristics (as built)
Type:	Submarine
Displacement:	361 t (355 long tons) (surfaced) 498 t (490 long tons) (submerged)
Length:	47.13 m (154 ft 8 in) (o/a)
Beam:	4.9 m (16 ft 1 in)
Draft:	3.24 m (10 ft 8 in)
Installed power:	630 PS (460 kW; 620 bhp) (diesels) 360 PS (260 kW; 360 bhp) (electric motors)
Propulsion:	2 × shafts; 2 × diesel engines 2 × electric motors
Speed:	11.9 knots (22.0 km/h; 13.7 mph) (surfaced) 7.7 knots (14.3 km/h; 8.9 mph) (submerged)
Range:	2,160 nmi (4,000 km; 2,490 mi) at 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) surfaced 44 nmi (81 km; 51 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) submerged
Test depth:	40 m (130 ft)
Complement:	2 officers and 20 crewmen
Armament:	4 × external 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo launchers (2 × forward, 2 × aft)

The Circé-class submarines were a pair of submarines built for the French Navy during the first decade of the 20th century. One boat was sunk in a collision before the First World War and the other was torpedoed and sunk in the last year of the war.

Ships

Ship	Laid down	Launched^[1]	Completed
Calypso (Q48)	1905	22 October 1907	1909
Circé (Q47)	1905	13 September 1907	1909

Notes

↑ Gardiner & Gray, p. 208

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.
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

The Circé class on navypedia.org
French Submarines: 1863 - Now
Sous-marins Français 1863 - (French)

Circé-class submarine

Circé Calypso

Preceded by: Émeraude class Followed by: Pluviôse 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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