The Aurore class was a class of fifteen coastal submarines designed for the French Navy. The prototype – Aurore – 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 List of submarines of France French submarines of World War II
Equivalent submarines of the same era
T class
S class Type VII
References
External links Les sous marins de type "AURORE"