French submarine Archimède (Q142)
Archimède′s sister ship Ajax in 1930 | |
| History | |
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| France | |
| Name | Archimède |
| Namesake | Archimedes (ca. 287 BC–212 BC), Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor |
| Operator | French Navy |
| Builder | Chantiers Navals Français, Blainville-sur-Orne, Caen, France |
| Laid down | 1 August 1927 |
| Launched | 6 September 1930 |
| Commissioned | 22 December 1932 |
| Decommissioned | 19 February 1952 |
| Homeport | Cherbourg, France |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Redoutable-class submarine |
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| Length | 92.3 m (302 ft 10 in) |
| Beam | 8.1 m (26 ft 7 in) |
| Draft | 4.4 m (14 ft 5 in) (surfaced) |
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Archimède was a French Navy Redoutable-class submarine of the M6 series commissioned in 1932. She participated in World War II, first on the side of the Allies from 1939 to June 1940, then in the navy of Vichy France until November 1942. She then returned to the Allied side, operating as part of the Free French Naval Forces. She was one of only five – along with Argo, Casabianca, Le Centaure, and Le Glorieux — out of the 31 Redoutable-class submarines to survive the war. She remained in French Navy service after World War II, and was decommissioned in 1952.