Gustave Zédé-class submarine

Class overview

Name:	Gustave Zédé
Builders:	Arsenal de Cherbourg
Operators:	French Navy
Preceded by:	Clorinde class
Succeeded by:	Amphitrite class
Built:	1911–16
In commission:	1914–37
Completed:	2
Scrapped:	2
General characteristics (as built)
Type:	Submarine
Displacement:	820–849 t (807–836 long tons) (surfaced) 1,047–1,098 t (1,030–1,081 long tons) (submerged)
Length:	74 m (242 ft 9 in) (o/a)
Beam:	6 m (19 ft 8 in) (deep)
Draft:	3.75 m (12 ft 4 in)
Installed power:	1,640 PS (1,210 kW; 1,620 bhp) (electric motors) 3,500 PS (2,600 kW; 3,500 bhp) (Du Temple boilers) or 2,400 PS (1,800 kW; 2,400 bhp) (diesels)
Propulsion:	2 × shafts; 2 × electric motors 2 × Diesel engines or 2 × Vertical triple-expansion steam engines
Speed:	17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) (surfaced) 10–11 knots (19–20 km/h; 12–13 mph) (submerged)
Range:	1,400–3,120 nmi (2,590–5,780 km; 1,610–3,590 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) (surfaced) 90–135 nmi (167–250 km; 104–155 mi) at 4–5 knots (7.4–9.3 km/h; 4.6–5.8 mph) (submerged)
Complement:	47 officers and crewmen
Armament:	2 × 450 mm (17.7 in) bow torpedo tubes 6 × external 450 mm torpedo launchers

The Gustave Zédé class was a pair of submarines built for the French Navy just before World War I.

Citations

Bibliography

Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allen. 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) 3–2. Bourg-en-Bresse, France: Marines édition. ISBN 2-909675-81-5.
Garier, Gérard (2000). Des Clorinde (1912-1916) aux Diane (1912–1917). L'odyssée technique et humaine du sous-marin en France (in French) 3–1. Bourg-en-Bresse, France: Marines édition. ISBN 2-909675-54-8.
Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). "Classement par types". Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 2, 1870 - 2006. Toulon: Roche. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

External links

Gustave Zédé class on navypedia.org

French naval ship classes of World War I

Dreadnought battleships	Courbet Bretagne Normandie^X Lyon^X

Pre-dreadnought battleships	Brennus^S Charles Martel^S Carnot^S Jauréguiberry^S Masséna^S Bouvet^S Charlemagne Henri IV^S Iéna^S Suffren^S République Liberté Danton

Armoured cruisers	Dupuy de Lôme^S Amiral Charner Pothuau^S Jeanne d'Arc^S Gueydon Dupleix Gloire Léon Gambetta Jules Michelet^S Ernest Renan^S Edgar Quinet

Protected cruisers	Amiral Cécille^S Forbin Troude Linois Friant Descartes D'Assas D'Entrecasteaux^S Guichen^S Châteaurenault^S Destrées Jurien de la Gravière^S

Destroyers	Durandal Framée Pertuisane Arquebuse Claymore Branlebas Spahi Voltigeur Chasseur Bouclier Bisson Enseigne Roux Aventurier Arabe

Submarines	Sirène Aigrette Oméga Émeraude Circé Pluviôse Brumaire Archimède^S Mariotte^S Amiral Bourgois^S Charles Brun^S Clorinde Gustave Zédé Amphitrite Bellone Dupuy de Lôme Diane Fulton Lagrange Armide O'Byrne

Seaplane carriers	Foudre^S

S Single ship of class C Completed after the war X Cancelled

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