French submarine Flore
Flore as a museum ship at Lorient Submarine Base | |
| History | |
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| France | |
| Name | Flore |
| Builder | Direction des Constructions et Armes navales, Cherbourg |
| Laid down | 19 June 1958 |
| Launched | 21 December 1960 |
| Commissioned | 21 May 1964 |
| Decommissioned | 29 March 1989 |
| Status | Museum ship |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Daphné-class submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 57.75 m (189 ft 6 in) |
| Beam | 6.74 m (22 ft 1 in) |
| Draft | 5.25 m (17 ft 3 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed |
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| Range | 4,300 nmi (8,000 km; 4,900 mi) at 7.5 kn (13.9 km/h; 8.6 mph) while snorkelling |
| Test depth | 300 m (980 ft) |
| Complement | 56 |
| Sensors & processing systems |
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| Armament | 12 torpedo tubes for 550 mm (22 in) torpedoes (8 at the bow, 4 at the stern) |
Flore (S 645) was a Daphné-class submarine of the French Navy. Launched in 1960, it was in service from 1964 to 1989, primarily operating in the Mediterranean Sea. Since 2010, Flore has been used as a museum ship at the Lorient Submarine Base.