The Français class, also known as the Morse class, consisted of two submarines built for the French Navy during the first decade of the 20th century.
Design and description The two Français-class submarines were purchased by public subscription in 1899 that was organized by the newspaper Le Matin after the humiliation of the Fashoda Crisis in 1898. They were copies of the , except built in steel rather than earlier boat's bronze alloy. The boats displaced on the surface and submerged. They had an overall length of , a beam of , and a draft of . The crew of all of the submarines numbered 2 officers and 11 enlisted men. The boats were powered by a pair of Sautter-Harlé electric motors designed to provide a total of , both driving the single propeller shaft that was fitted with a variable-pitch propeller. They were designed to reach a maximum speed of on the surface and underwater. The Français class had a surface endurance of at and a submerged endurance of at .Roberts, p. 423
The boats were armed with torpedoes. They had an internal torpedo tube in the bow and two external torpedo launchers positioned on the hull forward of the conning tower.
Ships Ship Laid down Launched Commissioned (Q11) about 1899 29 January 1901 1 June 1902 (Q12) 3 October 1899 25 April 1901about 1902
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External links French Submarines: 1863 - Now Sous-marins Français 1863 -