French submarine Méduse
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History |
France |
Name: |
Méduse |
Namesake: |
Medusa |
Launched: |
26 August 1930 |
Fate: |
Wrecked 10 November 1942 |
General characteristics |
Class and type: |
Diane-class submarine |
Type: |
submarine |
Displacement: |
- surfaced 650 tons
- submerged 810 tons
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Length: |
64.4 m (211 ft) |
Beam: |
6.2 m (20 ft) |
Draught: |
4.3 m (14 ft) |
Propulsion: |
- 2 × diesels (1,400 bhp)
- 2 × electric motors (1,000 shp)
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Speed: |
- surfaced 13,7 knots
- submerged 9 knots
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Méduse was a Diane-class submarine of the French Navy. She was launched on 26 August 1930 at Le Havre, France.
After France surrendered to Germany in June 1940 during World War II, Méduse served with the navy of Vichy France. During Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of French North Africa, she was wrecked on 10 November 1942 when she beached herself on the French North African coast to avoid sinking after suffering damage in an attack in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Blanc by United States Navy floatplanes based on the light cruiser USS Philadelphia (CL-41).[1][2]
References
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Shipwrecks |
- 2 Nov: Empire Antelope, Empire Leopard
- 4 Nov: Hobbema, U-132
- 5 Nov: U-408
- 6 Nov: City of Cairo
- 7 Nov: Eveleen, Ha-11, USS Majaba
- 8 Nov: Albatros, Brestois, Boulonnais, Fougueux, Frondeur, HMS Hartland, Milan, Primauguet, Surprise, Tornade, Tramontane, HMS Walney, West Humhaw
- 9 Nov: HMS Cromer, USS Leedstown, Typhon
- 10 Nov: HMS Broke, I-15, HMS Ibis, Jean Bart, HMS Martin, Méduse
- 11 Nov: USS Joseph Hewes, HMS Unbeaten, Viceroy of India
- 12 Nov: USS Edward Rutledge, USS Erie, USS Hugh L. Scott, USS Tasker H. Bliss, HMS Tynwald, U-272, U-660
- 13 Nov: Akatsuki, USS Atlanta, USS Barton, USS Cushing, Empire Wold, HNLMS Isaac Sweers, USS Juneau, Kinugasa, USS Laffey, USS Monssen, U-411, Yūdachi
- 14 Nov: Hiei, Scillin, U-595, U-605
- 15 Nov: HMS Algerine, HMS Avenger, Ayanami, USS Benham, Kirishima, USS Preston, U-98, U-259, USS Walke
- 16 Nov: Irish Pine, U-173
- 17 Nov: U-331
- 18 Nov: Krasnoye Znamya, Tower Grange
- 19 Nov: USS YP-26
- 20 Nov: Prins Harald
- 21 Nov: U-517
- 24 Nov: Hayashio
- 25 Nov: HMS Utmost
- 27 Nov: Aigle, Algérie, Bordelais, Casque, Cassard, Colbert, Commandant Teste, D'Iberville, Dunkerque, Dupleix, Foch, Foudroyant, Gerfaut, Guépard, Jean de Vienne, Kersaint, La Galissonnière, Lion, Lynx, Mameluk, Marseillaise, Mogador, Panthère, Provence, Siroco, Strasbourg, Tartu, Tigre, Trombe, Valmy, Vauban, Vauquelin, Vautour, Vénus, Verdun
- 28 Nov: Empire Cromwell, HMS Ithuriel, Nova Scotia, Thomas T. Tucker
- 29 Nov: Dunedin Star
- 30 Nov: USS Northampton, HMCS Quinte, Takanami, Thor, Uckermark
- Unknown date: La Sibylle, Saint Edmond, U-184
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Other incidents | |
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1941 1942 1943 October 1942 December 1942 |