French submarine Minerve (Q185)

French submarine Minerve (Q185)
Career (France)
Name: Minerve
Builder: Cherbourg
Laid down: 17 August 1931
Launched: 23 October 1934
Commissioned: 15 September 1936
Fate: lost on 19 September 1945
General characteristics
Class and type: Minerve-class submarine
Type: submarine
Displacement: surfaced 662 tons
submerged 856 tons
Length: 68,1 m
Beam: 5,6 m
Draught: 4,0 m
Propulsion: 2 x diesels (1,800 bhp)
2 x electric motors (1,230 shp)
Speed: surfaced 14,2 knots
submerged 9 knots

Minerve was the lead ship of the Minerve-class submarines of the French Navy. On 3 July 1940 the British captured her in Plymouth and transferred her to the Free French forces.

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