Engineering:French submarine Archimède

Short description: Early 20th century sub

Class overview
Name:	Archimède
Operators:	French Navy
Preceded by:	Brumaire class
Succeeded by:	Mariotte
Built:	1908–10
In commission:	1910–19
Completed:	1
Scrapped:	1
History
France
Name:	Archimède
Namesake:	Archimedes
Builder:	Arsenal de Cherbourg
Laid down:	2 January 1908
Launched:	4 August 1909
Completed:	22 September 1910
Struck:	12 November 1919
Identification:	Pennant number: Q73
Fate:	Sold for scrap, 4 October 1921
General characteristics (as built)
Type:	Submarine
Displacement:	580 t (571 long tons) (surfaced) 809 t (796 long tons) (submerged)
Length:	60.9 m (199 ft 10 in) (o/a)
Beam:	5.63 m (18 ft 6 in) (deep)
Draft:	4.58 m (15 ft 0 in)
Installed power:	840 PS (620 kW; 830 bhp) (diesels) 610 PS (450 kW; 600 bhp) (electric motors)
Propulsion:	2 × shafts; 2 × diesel engines 2 × electric motors
Speed:	14.9 knots (27.6 km/h; 17.1 mph) (surfaced) 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) (submerged)
Range:	2,800 nmi (5,200 km; 3,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) (surfaced) 99 nmi (183 km; 114 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) (submerged)
Complement:	3 officers and 25 crewmen
Armament:	1 × 450 mm (17.7 in) bow torpedo tube 2 × single 450 mm Drzewiecki drop collars 4 × single external 450 mm torpedo launchers

Archimède was the only submarine of her class built for the French Navy during the first decade of the 20th century.

Bibliography

• Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5. 
• Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5. 
• Garier, Gérard (2002) (in French). A l'épreuve de la Grande Guerre. L'odyssée technique et humaine du sous-marin en France. 3–2. Bourg-en-Bresse, France: Marines édition. ISBN 2-909675-81-5. 
• Garier, Gérard (1998) (in French). Des Émeraude (1905-1906) au Charles Brun (1908–1933). L'odyssée technique et humaine du sous-marin en France. 2. Bourg-en-Bresse, France: Marines édition. ISBN 2-909675-34-3.