List of submarines of France
Appearance
Scorpène-class submarines for international buyers; the Brazilian submarine Álvaro Alberto, a nuclear-powered boat,[1] will be developed from this platform.[2]
Each French Navy vessel, including French submarines have for military awards and decorations their respective fanion insignia.
In service
Nuclear attack submarines
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- Rubis class
- Émeraude (S604) (1988–present)
- Améthyste (S605) (1992–present)
- Perle (S606) (1993–present)
- Suffren class
- Suffren (Q284/S635)[3] (2020–present)
- Duguay-Trouin (S636)[4] (2023- ) (delivered to the Navy July 2023, working up to full operational status)
Nuclear ballistic missile submarines
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- Triomphant class
- Le Triomphant (S616) (1997–present)
- Le Téméraire (S617) (1999–present)
- Le Vigilant (S618) (2004–present)
- Le Terrible (S619) (2010–present)
Planned
Nuclear attack submarines
- Suffren class
- Tourville (Laid down 2011)
- De Grasse (Laid down 2014)
- Rubis (Laid down 2019)
- Casabianca (Laid down 2020)
Nuclear ballistic missile submarines
Retired from service
Each French submarine from Gymnote onwards when ordered/constructed was given a sequential hull number (prefixed by the letter 'Q'). The sequence included submarines built in France for foreign navies, accounting for several gaps in the 'Q' numbering below.
1863 to 1903
- Plongeur (1863–1872)
- Gymnote (Q1) (1888–1908)
- Gustave Zédé (Q2) (1893–1909)
- Morse (Q3) (1899–1909)
- Narval (Q4) (1900–1909)
- Sirène class (1901–1919)
- Farfadet class (1901–1913)
- Morse class (1901–1914)
- Naïade class (1903–1914)
1904 to 1919
- Experimental types (varying designs)
X - Aigrette class (1904–1919)
- Argonaute (Q40)
Émeraude class (1906–1919)Topaze Circé class (1907–1918)Circé - Guêpe class
- Guèpe 1 (Q49)
- Guèpe 2 (Q50)
- Pluviôse class
- Archimède (Q73) (1909–1919)
- Charles Brun (Q89) (1911–1915)
- Mariotte (Q74) (1911–1915)
- Brumaire class (1911–1930)
- Amiral Bourgois (Q82) (1912–1919)
- Clorinde class (1913–1926)
- Gustave Zédé class (1913–1937)
- Gustave Zédé (Q92)
- Néréide (Q93)
- Amphitrite class (1914–1935)
- Amphitrite (Q94)
- Astrée (Q95)
- Artémis (Q96)
- Aréthuse (Q97)
- Atalante (Q98)
- Amarante (Q99)
- Ariane (Q100)
- Andromaque (Q101)
- Bellone class (1914–1935)
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- Dupuy de Lôme class (1915–1935)
- Dupuy de Lôme (Q105)
- Sané (Q106)
- Diane class (1915–1935)
- Armide class (1915–1935)
- Joessel class (1917–1935)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/French_submarine_Lagrange.jpg/220px-French_submarine_Lagrange.jpg)
- Lagrange class (1917–1937)
- UA class(Germany) (1918–1937)
- Jean-Autric (ex U-105)
- Léon Mignot (ex U-108)
- Pierre Marast (ex U-162)
- Jean Roulier (ex U-166)
- UE class(Germany) (1918–1935)
- Victor Reveille (ex U-79)
- René Audry (ex U-119)
- German Type U 139 submarine(Germany) (1918–1935)
- Helbronn (ex U-139)
- German Type UB II submarine (Germany) (1916–1937)
- Roland Morillot (ex UB-23)
- Trinité-Schillemans (ex UB-94)
- Carissan (ex UB-99)
- Jean Corre (ex UB-155)
1919 to 1944
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- O'Byrne class (1919–1935)
- Maurice Callot Minelaying submarine (1922–1936)
- Pierre Chailley Minelaying submarine (1923–1936)
- 600 Series (1925–1946)
- Ariane class (1925–1942)
- Sirène class (1925–1942)
- Circé class (1927–1942)
- Argonaute class (1932–1946)
- Aréthuse (NN7)
- Argonaute (NN6)
- Atalante (Q162)
- La Vestale (Q176)
- La Sultane (Q177)
- Orion class (1932–1943)
- Diane class (1932–1946)
- Requin class (1926–1946)
Saphir class Minelaying submarines (1930–1949)Rubis Redoutable class (1931–1952)Redoutable - Type M-5
- Redoutable (Q136)
- Vengeur (Q137)
- Type M-6
- Pascal (Q138)
- Pasteur (Q139)
- Henri Poincaré (Q140)
- Poncelet[11] (Q141)
- Archimède (Q142)
- Fresnel (Q143)
- Monge (Q144)
- Achille (Q147)
Ajax[12] (Q148)Ajax - Actéon (Q149)
- Achéron (Q150)
- Argo (Q151)
Prométhée (Q153)Prométhée - Persée (Q154)
- Protée (Q155)
- Pégase (Q156)
- Phénix (Q157)
- L'Espoir (Q167)
- Le Glorieux (Q168)
- Le Centaure (Q169)
- Le Héros (Q170)
- Le Conquérant (Q171)
- Le Tonnant (Q172)
- Agosta (Q178)
- Bévéziers[13] (Q179)
- Ouessant (Q180)
- Sidi Ferruch (Q181)
- Sfax (Q182)
- Casabianca (Q183)
- Type M-5
- Surcouf (1934–1942)[14]
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Minerve class (1936–1954)Junon British U class (1943–1946)Curie - Aurore class (1940–1960)
- Aurore (Q192)
- Créole (Q193)
- Bayadère (Q194) – never completed
- Favorite (Q195)
- Africaine (Q196)
- Astrée (Q200)
- Andromède (Q201)
- Antigone (Q202) – construction abandoned 1940
- Andromaque (Q203) – construction abandoned 1940
- Artémis (Q206)
- Armide (Q207) – construction abandoned 1940
- Hermione (Q211) – construction abandoned 1940
- Gorgone (Q212) – construction abandoned 1940
- Clorinde (Q213) – construction abandoned 1940
- Cornélie (Q214) – construction abandoned 1940
- Roland Morillot class (cancelled 1940)
- Roland Morillot (Q191)
- La Praya (Q198)
- La Martinique (Q199)
- La Guadeloupe (Q204)
- La Réunion (Q205)
- unnamed (Q228)
- unnamed (Q229)
- unnamed (Q230)
- Émeraude class Minelaying submarines (authorised only, cancelled 1940)
- Émeraude (Q197)
- Agate (Q208)
- Corail (Q209)
- Escarboucle (Q210)
- Phénix class (cancelled 1940)
- Vendémiaire (Q215)
- Brumaire (Q216)
- Frimaire (Q217)
- Nivôse (Q218)
- Pluviôse (Q219)
- Ventôse (Q220)
- Germinal (Q221)
- Floréal (Q222)
- Prairial (Q223)
- Messidor (Q224)
- Thermidor (Q225)
- Fructidor (Q226)
- Phénix (Q227)
1944 to 1971
- German Type VII submarine(Germany) (1944–1963)
- German Type IX submarine (French: Unterseeboot type IX)
- Type XXI submarine (Germany) (1946–1967)
- Roland Morillot (ex U-2518)
- Type XXIII submarine (Germany) (1946)
- Saphir class(United Kingdom) (1951–1959)
- Sibylle (ex – HMS Sportsman)
- Saphir (ex – HMS Satyr)
- Sirène (ex – HMS Spiteful)
- Sultane (ex – HMS Statesman)
- Narval class (1957–1992)
- Aréthuse class (1958–1981)
- Daphné class (1964–1996)
- Gymnote (Q251) (1966–1986)
1971 to present
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- Redoutable class (1971–2008)
- Redoutable (Q252) (1971–1991)
- Terrible (Q255) (1973–1996)
- Foudroyant (Q257) (1974–1998)
- Indomptable (1976–2005)
- Tonnant (1980–1999)
- Inflexible (1985–2008)
- Agosta class (1977–2001)
- Rubis class (1984 – )
- Saphir (S602) (1984–2019)
- Rubis (S601) (1983-2022)
- Casabianca (S603) (1987–2023)
See also
- List of active French Navy ships
- List of Escorteurs of the French Navy
- List of battleships of France
- List of aircraft carriers of France
- List of French Air and Space Force aircraft squadrons
Notes
- ^ "France will help Brazil develop nuclear-powered submarines, Macron says". 27 March 2024.
- ^ "O Prosub e o submarino nuclear brasileiro SN-BR". 20 February 2018.
- ^ Vavasseur, Xavier (27 November 2021). "Naval Group Rolls Out 2nd Barracuda Type Submarine". Naval News. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
- ^ Vavasseur, Xavier (12 August 2023). "French Navy Receives 2nd Barracuda Type Submarine". navalnews.com.
- ^ Commanded by Jean-Marie Querville (1903–1967) between 1934 and 1936
- ^ Commanded by Jean Favreul (1898–1940) between 1939 and 1940
- ^ Commanded by Jean-Marie Querville (1903–1967) between 1936 and 1938, and Benoit Lejay (1905–1941) between 1940 and 1941.
- ^ Commanded by Georges Cabanier
- ^ Commanded by Jean Favreul (1898–1940) in 1933.
- ^ Commanded by Bertrand de Sausssine du Pont de Gault (1903–1940)
- ^ Commanded by Jean Favreul (1898–1940) between 1937 and 1939.
- ^ Commanded by Pierre Lancelot (1901–1957) in 1940.
- ^ Commanded by Raymond de Belot (1899–1976) between 1930 and 1933, and Georges Louis Nicolas Blaison (1906–1942) between 1941 and 1942.
- ^ Commanded by Jean-Marie Querville (1903–1967) between 1941 and 1943.
- ^ Commanded by Bernard de Truchis de Lays (1936–1970)
- ^ Commanded by André Fauve (1935–1968)
References
- Les Sous-Marins de la Marine Nationale (Submarines of the French Navy)
- Henri Le Masson Du Nautilus (1800) au Redoutable (Presses de la Cité, Paris, 1969)