Built as a submarine by Arsenal de Cherbourg, Cherbourg for the French Navy.
November 1915 laid down.
27 May 1907 launched as the PLUVIÔSE (Q-51) named after the 5th month in the French Repulican calender.
Displacement 404 ton surface, 553 tons submerged, dim. 51.12 x 4.96 x 3.15m. (draught surface)
Powered by two triple expansion steam engines 700 hp, two electric motors 400 hp, twin shafts, speed surface 12 knots, 8 knots submerged.
Range by a speed of 8.5 knots, 1,000 mile.
Armament: 1 × 450 mm (17.7 in) bow torpedo tube, 1 × twin 450 mm Drzewiecki drop collar, 4 × external 450 mm torpedo launchers (2 × facing forward, 2 × aft).
Crew 2 officers and 23 men.
10 May 1908 Commissioned.
French submarine PLUVIÔSE (Q51) was a Laubeuf type submarine built for the French Navy prior to World War I. She was the name ship of her class.
Design and construction
PLUVIÔSE was ordered by the French Navy as part of its 1905 programme and was laid down at the Cherbourg Naval Yard in November of that year. She was launched on 27 May 1907 and commissioned 10 May 1908. PLUVIÔSE was equipped with Du Temple boilers and reciprocating steam engines for surface propulsion, and CGE Nancy electric motors for power while submerged. She carried eight torpedoes, two internally and six externally. PLUVIÔSE was named for a month of the French Revolutionary calendar.
Service history
On the afternoon of 26 May 1910 PAS DE CALAIS. PLUVIÔSE sank with the loss of all hands, 27 men. The vessel was later raised and repaired, though she was not returned to front-line service, being disarmed and used for compression tests.
Her captain at the time of the accident Maurice Callot, was later honoured by having a submarine named after him.
PLUVIÔSE was stricken in 1919 and sold for scrap in 1925.
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