French submarine Archimède (1909)
A postcard of Archimède in Brest, 1910 | |
| Class overview | |
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| Name | Archimède |
| Operators | French Navy |
| Preceded by | Brumaire class |
| Succeeded by | Mariotte |
| Built | 1908–1910 |
| In service | 1911–1919 |
| In commission | 1910–1919 |
| Completed | 1 |
| Scrapped | 1 |
| History | |
| France | |
| Name | Archimède |
| Namesake | Archimedes |
| Builder | Arsenal de Cherbourg |
| Laid down | 2 January 1908 |
| Launched | 4 August 1909 |
| Commissioned | 22 September 1910 |
| In service | September 1911 |
| Stricken | 12 November 1919 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 4 October 1921 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Type | Submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 60.9 m (199 ft 10 in) (o/a) |
| Beam | 5.63 m (18 ft 6 in) (deep) |
| Draft | 4.51 m (14 ft 10 in) |
| Installed power | |
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| Complement | 3 officers and 25 crewmen |
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Archimède was one of four experimental submarines ordered for the French Navy in 1906. Each boat was built to a different design and Archimède was optimized to maximize speed and range.