French submarine Nivôse
![]() An unidentified Brumaire-class submarine in Cherbourg | |
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Name | Nivôse |
Namesake | The first month of Winter in the French Revolutionary Calendar |
Builder | Arsenal de Toulon |
Launched | 6 January 1912 |
Completed | 19 October 1912? |
Stricken | 27 July 1921 |
Identification | Pennant number: Q63 |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Brumaire-class submarine |
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Length | 52.15 m (171 ft 1 in) (o/a) |
Beam | 5.42 m (17 ft 9 in) |
Draft | 3.19 m (10 ft 6 in) |
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Test depth | 40 m (130 ft) |
Complement | 2 officers and 27 crewmen |
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Nivôse was one of 16 Brumaire-class submarines built for the French Navy during the 1910s.
Citations
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
- Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
- Garier, Gérard (2002). A l'épreuve de la Grande Guerre. L'odyssée technique et humaine du sous-marin en France (in French). Vol. 3–2. Bourg-en-Bresse, France: Marines édition. ISBN 2-909675-81-5.
- Garier, Gérard (1998). Des Émeraude (1905-1906) au Charles Brun (1908–1933). L'odyssée technique et humaine du sous-marin en France (in French). Vol. 2. Bourg-en-Bresse, France: Marines édition. ISBN 2-909675-34-3.