French submarine Africaine (Q196)
Model of Africaine | |
| History | |
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| France | |
| Name | Africaine |
| Namesake | "African" |
| Ordered | 1937 |
| Builder | Rouen |
| Laid down | December 1937 |
| Fate | Incomplete, captured by German in June 1940 |
| Nazi Germany | |
| Name | UF-1 |
| Acquired | June 1940 |
| Fate | Captured by Allies |
| France | |
| Name | Africaine |
| Launched | 7 December 1946 |
| Commissioned | October 1949 |
| Decommissioned | 1961 |
| Stricken | 28 February 1963 |
| Fate | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Aurore-class submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 73.5 m (241 ft) |
| Beam | 6.5 m (21 ft) |
| Draught | 4.2 m (14 ft) |
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| Range |
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| Test depth | 100 m (330 ft) |
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Africaine (Q196) ("African") was an Aurore-class submarine of the French Navy.
Still incomplete, she was captured by the Germans in June 1940 during World War II. She was renamed UF-1 on 13 May 1941 by the Kriegsmarine, but never completed during the German occupation of France.
She was recaptured, completed under her original name, and launched on 7 December 1946. Africaine was taken out of service in 1961 and was stricken on 28 February 1963 as Q334.