French submarine Pierre Chailley
Pierre Chailley sometime before February 1925.
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Name | Paul Chailley |
Namesake | Paul Étienne Pierre Chailley (1886–1914), French naval officer |
Operator | French Navy |
Ordered | 18 May 1917 |
Builder | Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, Le Havre, France |
Laid down | May 1917 |
Launched | 19 December 1922 |
Renamed | Pierre Chailley 15 February 1923 |
Namesake | Paul Étienne Pierre Chailley (1886–1914), French naval officer |
Commissioned | 1 August 1923 |
Decommissioned | 13 May 1936 |
Stricken | 13 May 1936 |
Identification | No pennant number |
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Class and type | Unique minelayer submarine |
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Length | 70 m (229 ft 8 in) |
Beam | 7.52 m (24 ft 8 in) |
Draft | 4.04 m (13 ft 3 in) |
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Complement | 4 officers, 40 men |
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Pierre Chailley was a French Navy minelayer submarine commissioned in 1923. She was the ancestor of the Saphir-class submarines, which were the last French minelayer submarines.[1][2] She was decommissioned in 1936.
Pierre Chailley — originally named Paul Chailley — was named for the
Design
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Pierre Chailley′s main armament consisted of 24
Construction and commissioning
Pierre Chailley was ordered during
Service history
Pierre Chailley spent her operational career mostly in the Mediterranean Sea.[4] The French Navy used her mainly for the study of and experimentation with undersea warfare techniques.[8]
On 8 April 1925, Pierre Chailley′s trainable torpedo tubes suffered damage.
Pierre Chailley was placed in "special reserve" on 11 July 1933.[7] She officially was declared unfit for use as a combat vessel on 21 January 1935.[7]
Disposal
See also
References
Citations
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Conway′s 1906–1921, p. 213.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Labayle Couhat, p. 160.
- ^ "Paul Étienne Pierre CHAILLEY". Ecole Navale (in French). Retrieved 18 November 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Fontenoy, p. 182.
- ^ a b c Hird, p. 296.
- ^ Gozdawa-Gołębiowski & Wywerka Prekurat, p. 536.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Sous-marin de 1ere classe, mouilleur de mines Classe Français" (PDF). AGASM (in French). 26 September 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
- ^ Captain Patrick. "PIERRE CHAILLEY (1923/1936)". Marines de Guerre et Poste Navale (in French). Retrieved 21 June 2022.
Bibliography
- Fontenoy, Paul E. (2007). Submarines: An Illustrated History of Their Impact (Weapons and Warfare). ISBN 978-1-85367-623-9.
- Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906-1921. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - Hird, H. B., Lt. Cmdr. (February 1925). "Professional Notes". Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute. 51 (2): 296. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Labayle Couhat, Jean (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allan Ltd. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
- Gozdawa-Gołębiowski, Jan; Wywerka Prekurat, Tadeusz (1994). Pierwsza wojna światowa na morzu (in Polish). Warsaw: Lampart. ISBN 83-902554-2-1.
External links
- Captain Patrick. "PIERRE CHAILLEY (1923/1936)". Marines de Guerre et Poste Navale (in French). Retrieved 21 June 2022.
- "Sous-marin de 1ere classe, mouilleur de mines Classe Français" (PDF). AGASM (in French). 26 September 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
- "PIERRE CHAILLEY 1921" (PDF). The Dreadnought Project. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
- "PIERRE-CHAILLEY, sous-marin, mouilleur de mines : Rapport d'essais définitif, fasc. I, II, III, IV. Photo". Service historique de la Défense (in French). Retrieved 21 June 2022.
- Marc Castel (7 March 2001). "L'origine des noms donnés aux sous-marins français". Net-Marine (in French). Retrieved 21 June 2022.