French submarine Dupuy de Lôme (Q105)

Career (France)
Name: Dupuy de Lôme (Q105)
Namesake: Dupuy de Lôme
Ordered: 1913
Builder: Arsenal de Toulon
Laid down: 1914
Launched: 9 September 1915
Commissioned: July 1916
Decommissioned: July 1935
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Class & type: Dupuy de Lôme class
Displacement: 833 tons surfaced, 1287 tons submerged
Length: 75 metres
Beam: 6.4 metres
Draught: 3.6 metres
Propulsion:

2 shafts

  • Reciprocating steam engines with 2 boilers (3500 hp) plus electric motors (1640 hp).
  • Replaced by Krupp diesel engines after 1919
Speed: 17 knots surfaced, 11 knots submerged
Range: 2350 nm at 10 knots, 120 nm at 5 knots submerged
Complement: 43
Armament:
  • 8 - 450mm torpedo tubes , 1 - 75mm gun, 1 - 47mm gun

Dupuy de Lôme (Q105) was the lead ship of her class of submarine of the French Navy The vessel was named after the French naval architect Dupuy de Lôme. She had one sister ship, Sané. The boats were designed by M. Hutter and were enlargements of his Archimede class design.

Dupuy de Lôme was laid down in Toulon in 1913, launched on 9 September 1915 and commissioned in July 1916. She was decommissionned in on 24 February 1935, and sold for scrap in Brest on 6 August 1938.[1]

References

  • Conway's All the world's Fighting ships 1906-1921



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