Aurore-class submarine

Model of the Africaine
Class overview
Name:	Aurore
Builders:	Le Havre, Nantes, Toulon, Chalon-sur-Saône, Rouen
Operators:	French Navy  Kriegsmarine
In service:	1946 - 1962
Planned:	8
Completed:	15
General characteristics
Displacement:	900 tonnes surfaced 1170 tonnes submerged
Length:	73.5 m (241 ft)
Beam:	6.5 m (21 ft)
Draught:	4.2 m (14 ft)
Propulsion:	Diesel: 3000 shp (2237 KW) 1400 shp (1044 KW) electrical
Speed:	15 knots (28 km/h) surfaced 9 knots (17 km/h) submerged
Range:	5,600 nmi (10,400 km; 6,400 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) 2250 nmi at 15 knots 80 nm submerged at 5 knots (9.3 km/h)
Test depth:	100 metres
Armament:	1 × 100 mm deck gun 2 × 13.2 mm machine guns 9 × 550mm torpedo tubes (4 bow internal, 3 external amidships, and 2 stern external)

The Aurore class was a class of coastal submarines designed for the French Navy. Some of the ships were captured by Nazi Germany after the Fall of France, most of them in an unfinished state.

Five of the submarines, Andromède, Astrée, Africaine, Artémis and Créole, were completed after the war, were commissioned in the French Navy and served into the 1960s. Andromède, Artémis and Créole were fitted with GUPPY sails and Submarine snorkels.

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