French submarine Pierre Chailley

Pierre Chailley
Pierre Chailley sometime before February 1925.
History
France
NamePaul Chailley
NamesakePaul Étienne Pierre Chailley (1886–1914), French naval officer
OperatorFrench Navy
Ordered18 May 1917
BuilderChantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, Le Havre, France
Laid downMay 1917
Launched19 December 1922
RenamedPierre Chailley 15 February 1923
NamesakePaul Étienne Pierre Chailley (1886–1914), French naval officer
Commissioned1 August 1923
Decommissioned13 May 1936
Stricken13 May 1936
IdentificationNo pennant number
Fate
  • Condemned 14 May 1936
  • Sold 16 April 1937
  • Scrapped
General characteristics
Class & typeUnique minelayer submarine
Displacement
  • 884 long tons (898 t) (surfaced)
  • 1,191 long tons (1,210 t) (submerged)
Length70 m (229 ft 8 in)
Beam7.52 m (24 ft 8 in)
Draft4.04 m (13 ft 3 in)
Propulsion
Speed
  • 13.75 knots (25.5 km/h; 15.8 mph) (surfaced)
  • 8.5 knots (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph) (submerged)
Range
  • 2,800 nmi (5,190 km; 3,220 mi) at 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) (surface)
  • 80 nmi (148 km; 92 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) (submerged)
Complement4 officers, 40 men
Armament

Pierre Chailley was a French Navy minelayer submarine commissioned in 1923. She was the ancestor of the Saphir-class submarines, which were the last French minelayer submarines. She was decommissioned in 1936.

Pierre Chailley — originally named Paul Chailley — was named for the commanding officer of the submarine Curie, Lieutenant de vaisseau Paul Étienne Pierre Chailley, killed during World War I when two Austro-Hungarian Navy ships sank Curie on 20 December 1914.