French submarine Oréade
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France | |
Name | Oréade |
Namesake | Oread, a mountain nymph in Greek mythology |
Operator | French Navy |
Builder | Ateliers et Chantiers de la Seine-Maritime, Le Trait, France |
Laid down | 15 August 1929 |
Launched | 23 May 1932 |
Commissioned | 15 December 1933 |
Fate |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Diane-class submarine |
Displacement | |
Length | 64.4 m (211 ft 3 in) |
Beam | 6.2 m (20 ft 4 in) |
Draft | 4.3 m (14 ft 1 in) |
Propulsion |
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Speed |
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Range |
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Test depth | 80 metres (262 ft) |
Complement | 3 officers, 38 men |
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Oréade (Q164) was a French Navy Diane-class submarine commissioned in 1933. During World War II, she operated on the Allied side until 1940, when she became part of the naval forces of Vichy France. She was sunk in November 1942.
Construction and commissioning
Construction of Oréade began on 18 December 1928,
Service history
Pre-World War II
On 28 November 1934, the submarine Eurydice got underway from Cherbourg to conduct exercises with Oréade and Oréade′s sister ship Orphée.[2]
World War II
When World War II began on 1 September 1939 with the German invasion of Poland, Oréade was part of the 18th Submarine Division — a part of the 2nd Submarine Squadron in the 6th Squadron — along with her sister ships Amphitrite, Méduse, and La Psyché, based at Oran in Algeria.[1] France entered the war on the side of the Allies on 3 September 1939. Oréade subsequently patrolled in the Atlantic Ocean in the vicinity of the Canary Islands.[1] She underwent a refit at Oran in December 1939.[1]
German ground forces advanced into France on 10 May 1940, beginning the
Vichy France
After France′s surrender, Oréade served in the naval forces of
In January 1942 Oréade conducted defensive patrols off ports in French Morocco,[1] and during the month she spent 7 to 19 January at Safi, French Morocco, with La Psyché.[1] The two submarines visited Port Lyautey, French Morocco, from 13 to 17 February 1942.[1]
Oréade was disarmed at Casablanca in March 1942[1] in accordance with the terms of the 1940 armistice. She returned to active service in September 1942.[1] Still part of the 18th Submarine Division, she got underway from Oran on 30 October 1942 bound for Casablanca.[1]
Loss
When
Hostilities between Allied and French forces in French North Africa ceased on 11 November 1942, and French forces in Africa subsequently joined the Allies as part of the forces of Free France. Oréade was refloated on 10 June 1943[1] and placed in "special reserve" on 29 September 1943 at Casablanca.[1] She was condemned on 26 March 1946.[1]
References
Citations
Bibliography
- Moulin, Jean (April–May 2022). "Les sous-marins type Antiope des budgets 1927, 1928, 1929" [The Antope-Class Submarines of the 1927, 1928, 1929 Budgets]. Navires & Histoire (in French) (130): 66–75. ISSN 1280-4290.
- Moulin, Jean (2006). Les sous-marins français en images (in French). Rennes: Marines Éditions. pp. 28–29. ISBN 2-915379-40-8..
External links
- "Sous marin de 2ème classe ou 630 tonnes Classe Diane 2" (PDF). AGASM (in French). 27 May 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2020..
- Jean-Paul Nadeau et Claude Rogel. "Sous-Marin Oréade". Sous-Marins Français Disparus & Accidents (in French). Retrieved 15 January 2020..
- "Oréade - Sous-marin". AUX MARINS. Mémorial national des marins morts pour la France (in French). Retrieved 15 January 2020..
- Gragnic (18 May 2012). "Divers - Les classiques. Sous-marin OREADE". Anciens Cols Bleus et Pompons Rouges. Forum de discussions pour les anciens de la Marine Nationale (in French). Retrieved 15 January 2020..
- Allen Tony (8 November 2017). "Oréade (Q-164) (+1942)". Retrieved 15 January 2020..
- "13-Sous-marins (17) sous-marins classe Argonaute (3)". CLAUSUCHRONIA. Une uchronie un peu folle (in French). 1 September 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2020..
- "1937.01.28.Des ACSM.État des navires - commandes de 01 à 87 - marchés du 31.12.1919 au 17.11.1936". Worms & Cie (in French). 8 August 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2020..