French submarine Pasteur
Pasteur′s sister ship Ajax in 1930.
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Name | Pasteur |
Namesake | Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), French chemist and microbiologist |
Operator | French Navy |
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Laid down | 5 July 1926 |
Launched | 19 August 1928 |
Commissioned | 1 September 1932 |
Homeport | Brest, France |
Fate | Scuttled 18 June 1940 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Redoutable-class submarine |
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Length | 92.3 m (302 ft 10 in) |
Beam | 8.1 m (26 ft 7 in)[1] |
Draft | 4.4 m (14 ft 5 in) (surfaced) |
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Test depth | 80 m (262 ft) |
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Pasteur was a French Navy Redoutable-class submarine of the M6 series commissioned in 1932. She participated in World War II until she was scuttled in June 1940.
Characteristics
Pasteur was part of a fairly homogeneous series of 31 deep-sea patrol submarines also called "1,500-tonners" because of their displacement. All entered service between 1931 and 1939.
The Redoutable-class submarines were 92.3 metres (302 ft 10 in) long and 8.1 metres (26 ft 7 in) in
Construction and commissioning
Service history
On 12 May 1936, Pasteur and the destroyer L'Indomptable collided at the mouth of the Gironde during an exercise of the 2nd Light Squadron.[3]
In 1937, Pasteur received orders to make an endurance cruise to Douala, French Cameroon, in company with her sister ship Achille.[3]
World War II
At the start of World War II in September 1939, Pasteur was assigned to the 2nd Submarine Division in the 4th Submarine Squadron in the 1st Flotilla, a component of the Forces de haute mer (High Seas Force), based at Brest.[3][4] Her sister ships Achille, Casabianca, and Sfax made up the rest of the division.[3][4]
On either 3
On 14 November 1939, the 2nd Submarine Division received orders to proceed to Halifex, Nova Scotia, Canada, to take part in Allied convoy operations in the Atlantic Ocean.[3] Fighting bad weather, Pasteur, Achille, Casabianca, and Sfax arrived at Halifax at 07:30 on 25 November 1939,.[3] where the British Royal Navy submarines HMS Cachalot, HMS Narwhal, HMS Porpoise, and HMS Seal joined them for convoy escort operations on 26 November 1939.[5] During the winter of 1939–1940, the submarines escorted three convoys from Halifax to the United Kingdom always in difficult weather conditions.[3][8]
Beginning on 22 March 1940, the division was based at
German ground forces advanced into France on 10 May 1940, beginning the
References
Citations
- ^ Helgason, Guðmundur. "FR Ajax of the French Navy – French Submarine of the Redoutable class – Allied Warships of WWII". uboat.net. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
- ^ a b c d e Allied Warships: FR Pasteur, uboat.net Accessed 12 July 2022
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n u-boote.fr PASTEUR (in French) Accessed 4 September 2022
- ^ a b Huan, p. 49.
- ^ a b c d e u-boote.fr ACHILLE (in French) Accessed 5 August 2022
- ^ Picard, pp. 33–35.
- ^ Huan, pp. 60–61.
- ^ Huan, p. 67.
- ^ Picard, p. 55.
- ^ Huan, p. 79.
- ^ "Naval Events, June 1940, Part 3 of 4, Saturday 15th - Friday 21st". Naval History. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
Bibliography
- Fontenoy, Paul E. (2007). Submarines: An Illustrated History of Their Impact (Weapons and Warfare). Santa Barbara, California. ISBN 978-1-85367-623-9.]
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)[verification needed - Gardiner, Robert; Chesneau, Roger (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- Huan, Claude (2004). Les Sous-marins français 1918–1945 (in French). Rennes: Marines Éditions. ISBN 9782915379075.
- Picard, Claude (2006). Les Sous-marins de 1 500 tonnes (in French). Rennes: Marines Éditions. ISBN 2-915379-55-6.