French submarine Néréide

History

France
Name:	Néréide
Builder:	Arsenal de Cherbourg
Launched:	9 May 1914
Completed:	31 October 1916
Struck:	1935
Identification:	Pennant number: Q93
General characteristics (as built)
Type:	Gustave Zédé-class submarine
Displacement:	820 t (807 long tons) (surfaced) 1,047 t (1,030 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) 2,400 PS (1,800 kW; 2,400 bhp) (diesels)
Propulsion:	2 × shafts; 2 × electric motors 2 × Diesel engines
Speed:	17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) (surfaced) 10–11 knots (19–20 km/h; 12–13 mph) (submerged)
Range:	3,120 nmi (5,780 km; 3,590 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) (surfaced) 90 nmi (170 km; 100 mi) at 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) (submerged)
Test depth:	50 m (164 ft)
Complement:	47 officers and crewmen
Armament:	2 × 450 mm (17.7 in) bow torpedo tubes 3 × twin external 450 mm torpedo launchers

The French submarine Néréide was the second and last Gustave Zédé-class submarine built for the French Navy during the 1910s.

Citations

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.

Gustave Zédé-class submarine

Gustave Zédé Néréide

Preceded by: Clorinde class Followed by: Amphitrite class List of submarine classes of the French Navy

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