The submarines of France include nuclear attack submarines and nuclear ballistic missile submarines of various classes, operated by the French Navy as part of the French Submarine Forces. France also builds 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
editNuclear 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 - present)
- Tourville (S637) (2024 - present) (working up to full operational status as of late 2024)
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
editNuclear attack submarines
edit- Suffren class
- De Grasse (Laid down 2014)
- Rubis (Laid down 2019)
- Casabianca (Laid down 2020)
Nuclear ballistic missile submarines
editRetired from service
editEach 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
edit- 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
edit- Experimental types (varying designs)
X - Aigrette class (1904–1919)
- Argonaute (Q40)
Topaze 
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)
- 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)
Rubis 
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 - Actéon (Q149)
- Achéron (Q150)
- Argo (Q151)
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]
Junon 
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
edit- 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
editNotes
edit- ^ "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
edit- 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)