The Aurore class was a class of fifteen coastal submarines designed for the French Navy. The prototype â Aurore â was authorised in 1934, the next four in 1937, a further four in 1938, two in 1938, and a final four subsequently. Some of the ships were captured by Nazi Germany after the Fall of France, most of them in an unfinished state; two were intended to be completed for the German Navy, Africaine becoming UF-1 and Favorite becoming UF-2, but only the first was completed during the World War II, the second reverting to French control while still uncompleted.
Five of the submarines, , , , and , 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.
Ships
Builder: Toulon
Ordered: 1934
Laid down: December 1935
Launched: 26 July 1939
Fate: Scuttled during the scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon on 27 November 1942
Builder: Le Havre
Ordered: 1937
Laid down: December 1937
Launched: 8 June 1940
Fate: Broken up in 1961
Builder: Le Havre
Ordered: 1937
Laid down: December 1937
Launched: -
Fate: Broken up in June 1940 still on keel, never finished
Builder: Rouen
Ordered: 1937
Laid down: December 1937
Launched: September 1938
Fate: Taken by the German, becoming UF-2; scuttled in 1945 at Gotenhafen
Builder: Rouen
Ordered: 1937
Laid down: December 1937
Launched:7 December 1946
Fate: Broken up in 1963
Builder: Nantes
Ordered: 1938
Laid down: November 1938
Launched: 3 May 1946
Fate: Broken up in 1965
Builder: Nantes
Ordered: 1938
Laid down: November 1938
Launched: 17 November 1949
Fate: Broken up in 1965
Builder: Chalon-sur-Saône
Ordered: 1938
Laid down: November 1938
Launched: -
Fate: Broken up in 1940 still on keel, never finished
Builder: Rouen
Ordered: 1938
Laid down: November 1938
Launched: -
Fate: Broken up in 1940 still on keel, never finished
Builder: Le Havre
Ordered: 1939
Laid down: May 1939
Launched: 28 June 1942
Fate: Broken up in 1967
Builder: Rouen
Ordered: 1938
Laid down: May 1939
Launched: -
Fate: Broken up in 1940 still on keel, never finished
Builder: Le Havre
Ordered: 1939
Launched:
Fate: Broken up on keel while only 8% built
Builder: Le Havre
Ordered:
Launched:
Fate: Broken up on keel while only 5% built
Builder: Nantes
Ordered:
Launched:
Fate: Broken up in 1940 still on keel, never finished
Builder:
Ordered:
Launched:
Fate: Keel never laid
See also
Equivalent submarines of the same era
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