French submarine Dupuy de Lôme (Q105)

History
France
Name:	Dupuy de Lôme
Namesake:	Henri Dupuy de Lôme
Ordered:	1913
Builder:	Arsenal de Toulon
Laid down:	1 September 1913
Launched:	9 September 1915
Commissioned:	22 July 1916
Struck:	29 July 1935
Identification:	Pennant number: Q105
General characteristics
Class and type:	Dupuy de Lôme-class submarine
Displacement:	853 t (840 long tons) (surfaced) 1,291 t (1,271 long tons) (submerged)
Length:	75 m (246 ft 1 in) (o/a)
Beam:	6.39 m (21 ft 0 in) (deep)
Draft:	3.6 m (11 ft 10 in)
Installed power:	2 × 1,700 PS (1,300 kW; 1,700 hp); 2 Du Temple boilers 2 × 820 PS (600 kW; 810 hp) electric motors
Propulsion:	2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) (surfaced) 10.9 knots (20.2 km/h; 12.5 mph) (submerged)
Range:	2,350 nmi (4,350 km; 2,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) (surfaced) 120 nmi (220 km; 140 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) (submerged)
Test depth:	50 m (164 ft 1 in)
Complement:	41 crew
Armament:	2 × external bow 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes 2 × external stern 450 mm torpedo tubes 4 × single 450 mm rotating torpedo launchers 2 × single 75 mm (3.0 in) Canon de 75 modèle 1897 deck guns

The French submarine Dupuy de Lôme was the lead ship of her class of submarines built for the French Navy.

Dupuy de Lôme, named after the French naval architect Henri 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.

Notes

Bibliography

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• 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. 
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• 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

• Castel, Marc: Dupuy de Lôme at Sous-marins Français 1863 - pagesperso-orange.fr (French)
• Dupuy de Lôme class on navypedia.org