French submarine Africaine (Q196)
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Name | Africaine |
Namesake | "African" |
Ordered | 1937 |
Builder | Rouen |
Laid down | December 1937 |
Fate | Incomplete, captured by German in June 1940[1] |
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Name | UF-1 |
Acquired | June 1940 |
Fate | Captured by Allies |
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Name | Africaine |
Launched | 7 December 1946[1] |
Commissioned | October 1949[1] |
Decommissioned | 1961 |
Stricken | 28 February 1963[1] |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Aurore-class submarine |
Displacement |
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Length | 73.5 m (241 ft) |
Beam | 6.5 m (21 ft) |
Draught | 4.2 m (14 ft) |
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Test depth | 100 m (330 ft) |
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Africaine (Q196) ("African"[2]) was an Aurore-class submarine of the French Navy.
Still incomplete, she was captured by the Germans in June 1940 during World War II. She was renamed UF-1 on 13 May 1941 by the Kriegsmarine, but never completed during the German occupation of France.[1]
She was recaptured, completed under her original name, and launched on 7 December 1946. Africaine was taken out of service in 1961 and was stricken on 28 February 1963 as Q334.[1]
See also
[edit]Notes and references
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f Helgason, Guðmundur. "Foreign U-boats UF-2". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
- ^ Africaine is the feminine form of "African".