Engineering:List of submarines of France

The submarines of France include nuclear attack submarines and nuclear ballistic missile submarines of various classes, operated by the French Navy as part of the French Submarine Forces. France also builds Scorpène-class submarines for international buyers; the Brazilian submarine Álvaro Alberto, a nuclear-powered boat,[1] will be developed from this platform.[2]
Each French Navy vessel, including submarines, has their respective fanion insignia for military awards and decorations.
In service
Nuclear attack submarines

- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
- missing name (1992–present)
- missing name (1993–present)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
Nuclear ballistic missile submarines

- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
- missing name (1997–present)
- missing name (1999–present)
- missing name (2004–present)
- missing name (2010–present)
Planned
Nuclear attack submarines
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
- missing name (Laid down 2019)
- missing name (Laid down 2020)
Nuclear ballistic missile submarines
- SNLE 3G-class[6]
- Invincible (first steel cut 2024)
Retired from service
Each French submarine from Gymnote onwards when ordered/constructed was given a sequential hull number (prefixed by the letter 'Q'). The sequence included submarines built in France for foreign navies, accounting for several gaps in the 'Q' numbering below.
1863 to 1903
- missing name (1863–1872)
- missing name (Q1) (1888–1908)
- missing name (Q2) (1893–1909)
- missing name (Q3) (1899–1909)
- missing name (Q4) (1900–1909)
- Sirène class (1901–1919)
- missing name (Q5)
- missing name (Q6)
- missing name (Q13)
- missing name (Q14)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1901–1913)
- missing name (Q7) renamed Follet (1908–1913)
- missing name (Q8)
- missing name (Q9)
- missing name (Q10)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1901–1914)
- missing name (Q11)
- missing name (Q12)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1903–1914)
- missing name (Q15)
- missing name (Q16)
- missing name (Q17)
- missing name (Q18)
- missing name (Q19)
- missing name (Q20)
- missing name (Q21)
- missing name (Q22)
- missing name (Q23)
- missing name (Q24)
- missing name (Q25)
- missing name (Q26)
- missing name (Q27)
- missing name (Q28)
- missing name (Q29)
- missing name (Q30)
- missing name (Q31)
- missing name (Q32)
- missing name (Q33)
- missing name (Q34)
1904 to 1919
- Experimental types (varying designs)

missing name - missing name (Q35) – renamed Dauphin 13 February 1911 (1904–1914)
- missing name (Q36)
- missing name (Q37) – (1905–1909)
- Aigrette class (1904–1919)
- missing name (Q38)
- missing name (Q39)
- missing name (Q40)
Émeraude class (1906–1919)
missing name - missing name (Q41)
- missing name (Q42)
- missing name (Q43)
- missing name (Q44)
- missing name (Q45)
- missing name (Q46)
Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1907–1918)
missing name - missing name (Q47)
- missing name (Q48)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
- Guèpe 1 (Q49)
- Guèpe 2 (Q50)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.
- missing name (Q51)
- missing name (Q52)
- missing name (Q53)
- missing name (Q54)
- missing name (Q55)
- missing name (Q56)
- missing name (Q57)
- missing name (Q58)
- missing name (Q59)
- missing name (Q64)
- missing name (Q65)
- missing name (Q66)
missing name (Q67)
missing name - missing name (Q68)
- missing name (Q69)
- missing name (Q75)
- missing name (Q76)
- missing name (Q77)
- missing name (Q73) (1909–1919)
- missing name (Q89) (1911–1915)
- missing name (Q74) (1911–1915)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1911–1930)
- missing name (Q60)
- missing name (Q62)
- missing name (Q63)
- missing name (Q70)
- missing name (Q71)
- missing name (Q72)
- missing name (Q78)
- missing name (Q79)
- missing name (Q80)
- missing name (Q81)
- missing name (Q83)
- missing name (Q84)
- missing name (Q85)
- missing name (Q86)
- missing name (Q87)
- missing name (Q88)
- missing name (Q82) (1912–1919)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1913–1926)
- missing name (Q90)
- missing name (Q91)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1913–1937)
- missing name (Q92)
- missing name (Q93)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1914–1935)
- missing name (Q94)
- missing name (Q95)
- missing name (Q96)
- missing name (Q97)
- missing name (Q98)
- missing name (Q99)
- missing name (Q100)
- missing name (Q101)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1914–1935)
- missing name (Q102)
- missing name (Q103)
- missing name (Q104)

- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1915–1935)
- missing name (Q105)
- missing name (Q106)
- Diane class (1915–1935)
- missing name (Q107)
- missing name (Q108)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1915–1935)
- missing name (SD 2) ex-Japanese
- missing name (SD 3) ex-Greek
- missing name (SD 4) ex-Greek
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1917–1935)
- missing name (Q109)
- missing name (Q110)
- Six more of this class (Q115-Q120) were in the 1915 Programme but were cancelled (never named)

- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1917–1937)
- missing name (Q111)
- missing name (Q112)
- missing name (Q113)
- missing name (Q114)
- UA class (Germany) (1918–1937)
- Jean-Autric (ex U-105)
- Léon Mignot (ex U-108)
- Pierre Marast (ex U-162)
- Jean Roulier (ex U-166)
- UE class (Germany) (1918–1935)
- Victor Reveille (ex U-79)
- René Audry (ex U-119)
- German Type U 139 submarine (Germany) (1918–1935)
- Helbronn (ex U-139)
- German Type UB II submarine (Germany) (1916–1937)
- Roland Morillot (ex UB-23)
- Trinité-Schillemans (ex UB-94)
- Carissan (ex UB-99)
- Jean Corre (ex UB-155)
1919 to 1944

- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1919–1935)
- O'Byrne
- missing name
- missing name
- missing name Minelaying submarine (1922–1936)
- missing name Minelaying submarine (1923–1936)
- 600 Series (1925–1946)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1925–1942)
- missing name
- missing name
- missing name
- missing name
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1925–1942)
- missing name[7] (Q123)
- missing name (Q124)
- missing name (Q132)
- missing name (Q133)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1927–1942)
- missing name (Q125)
- missing name (Q126)
- missing name (Q134)
- missing name[8] (Q135)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1932–1946)
- missing name (NN7)
- missing name (NN6)
- missing name (Q162)
- missing name (Q176)
- missing name (Q177)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1932–1943)
- missing name (Q165)
- missing name (Q166)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1932–1946)
- missing name (NN4)
- missing name (NN5)
- missing name (Q159)
- missing name (Q160)
- missing name (Q161)
- missing name (Q163)
- missing name (Q164)
- missing name (Q174)
- missing name (Q175)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1925–1942)
- Requin class (1926–1946)
- missing name (Q115)
- missing name[9] (Q116)
missing name (Q117)
missing name - missing name (Q118)
- missing name (Q119)
- missing name (Q120)
- missing name (Q127)
- missing name (Q128)
- missing name (Q129)
Saphir class Minelaying submarines (1930–1949)
missing name Redoutable class (1931–1952)
missing name - Type M-5
- missing name (Q136)
- missing name (Q137)
- Type M-6
- missing name (Q138)
- missing name (Q139)
- missing name (Q140)
- missing name[12] (Q141)
- missing name (Q142)
- missing name (Q143)
- missing name (Q144)
- missing name (Q147)
missing name[13] (Q148)
missing name - missing name (Q149)
- missing name (Q150)
- missing name (Q151)
missing name (Q153)
missing name - missing name (Q154)
- missing name (Q155)
- missing name (Q156)
- missing name (Q157)
- missing name (Q167)
- missing name (Q168)
- missing name (Q169)
- missing name (Q170)
- missing name (Q171)
- missing name (Q172)
- missing name (Q178)
- missing name[14] (Q179)
- missing name (Q180)
- missing name (Q181)
- missing name (Q182)
- missing name (Q183)
- Type M-5
- missing name (1934–1942)[15]

Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1936–1954)
missing name - missing name (Q185)
- missing name[16] (Q186)
- missing name (Q187)
- missing name (Q188)
- missing name (Q189)
- missing name (Q190)
Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1943–1946)
missing name - missing name
- missing name
- missing name
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1940–1960)
- missing name
- missing name
- missing name – never completed
- missing name
- missing name
- missing name
- missing name
- Antigone (Q202) – construction abandoned 1940
- Andromaque (Q203) – construction abandoned 1940
- missing name
- Armide (Q207) – construction abandoned 1940
- Hermione (Q211) – construction abandoned 1940
- Gorgone (Q212) – construction abandoned 1940
- Clorinde (Q213) – construction abandoned 1940
- Cornélie (Q214) – construction abandoned 1940
- Roland Morillot class (cancelled 1940)
- missing name
- missing name
- missing name
- missing name
- missing name
- unnamed (Q228)
- unnamed (Q229)
- unnamed (Q230)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. Minelaying submarines (authorised only, cancelled 1940)
- Émeraude (Q197)
- Agate (Q208)
- Corail (Q209)
- Escarboucle (Q210)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (cancelled 1940)
- Vendémiaire (Q215)
- Brumaire (Q216)
- Frimaire (Q217)
- Nivôse (Q218)
- Pluviôse (Q219)
- Ventôse (Q220)
- Germinal (Q221)
- Floréal (Q222)
- Prairial (Q223)
- Messidor (Q224)
- Thermidor (Q225)
- Fructidor (Q226)
- Phénix (Q227)
1944 to 1971
- German Type VII submarine (Germany) (1944–1963)
- Millé (ex missing name)
- missing name (ex missing name) (Germany) (1945–1959)
- German Type IX submarine (French: Unterseeboot type IX)
- Blaison (ex missing name)
- Bouan (ex missing name)
- Type XXI submarine (Germany) (1946–1967)
- missing name (ex U-2518)
- Type XXIII submarine (Germany) (1946)
- missing name
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (United Kingdom) (1951–1959)
- Sibylle (ex – Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist.)
- Saphir (ex – Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist.)
- Sirène (ex – Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist.)
- Sultane (ex – Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist.)
- Narval class (1957–1992)
- missing name (Q231)
- missing name (Q232)
- missing name (Q233)
- missing name (Q234)
- missing name (Q237)
- missing name (Q238)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1958–1981)
- missing name (Q235)
- missing name (Q236)
- missing name (Q239)
- missing name (Q240)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1964–1996)
- missing name (Q251) (1966–1986)
1971 to present


- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1971–2008)
- missing name (Q252) (1971–1991)
- missing name (Q255) (1973–1996)
- missing name (Q257) (1974–1998)
- missing name (1976–2005)
- missing name (1980–1999)
- missing name (1985–2008)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1977–2001)
- missing name (1977–1997)
- missing name (1977–1998)
- missing name (1978–2000)
- missing name (1978–2001)
- Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (1984–)
- missing name (1984–2019)
- Rubis (S601) (1983–2022)
- missing name (1987–2023)
- missing name (1988–2024)
See also
- List of active French Navy ships
- List of Escorteurs of the French Navy
- List of battleships of France
- List of aircraft carriers of France
- List of French Air and Space Force aircraft squadrons
Notes
- ↑ "France will help Brazil develop nuclear-powered submarines, Macron says". 27 March 2024. https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20240327-france-to-help-brazil-develop-nuclear-technology-for-submarines.
- ↑ "O Prosub e o submarino nuclear brasileiro SN-BR". 20 February 2018. https://www.naval.com.br/blog/2018/02/20/o-prosub-e-o-submarino-nuclear-brasileiro-sn-br/.
- ↑ Vavasseur, Xavier (27 November 2021). "Naval Group Rolls Out 2nd Barracuda Type Submarine". Naval News. https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/11/naval-group-rolls-out-2nd-barracuda-type-submarine/. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
- ↑ Vavasseur, Xavier (12 August 2023). "French Navy Receives 2nd Barracuda Type Submarine". https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2023/08/french-navy-receives-2nd-barracuda-type-submarine/.
- ↑ Singsit, Jangoulun (26 February 2026). "French Navy’s fourth Barracuda-class submarine begins sea trial". https://www.naval-technology.com/news/french-navy-de-grasse-submarines/.
- ↑ Commanded by Jean-Marie Querville (1903–1967) between 1934 and 1936
- ↑ Commanded by Jean Favreul (1898–1940) between 1939 and 1940
- ↑ Commanded by Jean-Marie Querville (1903–1967) between 1936 and 1938, and Benoit Lejay (1905–1941) between 1940 and 1941.
- ↑ Commanded by Georges Cabanier
- ↑ Commanded by Jean Favreul (1898–1940) in 1933.
- ↑ Commanded by Bertrand de Sausssine du Pont de Gault (1903–1940)
- ↑ Commanded by Jean Favreul (1898–1940) between 1937 and 1939.
- ↑ Commanded by Pierre Lancelot (1901–1957) in 1940.
- ↑ Commanded by Raymond de Belot (1899–1976) between 1930 and 1933, and Georges Louis Nicolas Blaison (1906–1942) between 1941 and 1942.
- ↑ Commanded by Jean-Marie Querville (1903–1967) between 1941 and 1943.
- ↑ Commanded by Bernard de Truchis de Lays (1936–1970)
- ↑ Commanded by André Fauve (1935–1968)
References
- Les Sous-Marins de la Marine Nationale (Submarines of the French Navy)
- Henri Le Masson Du Nautilus (1800) au Redoutable (Presses de la Cité, Paris, 1969)
External links
- www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk – Classes of French Submarines
- uboat.net – History, French & Allied Submarines in World War II
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