French submarine Archimède (Q142)

*Archimède*
	Archimède′s sister ship Ajax in 1930
History
France
Name	Archimède
Namesake	Archimedes (ca. 287 BC–212 BC), Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor
Operator	French Navy
Builder	Chantiers Navals Français, Blainville-sur-Orne, Caen, France
Laid down	1 August 1927
Launched	6 September 1930
Commissioned	22 December 1932
Decommissioned	19 February 1952
Homeport	Cherbourg, France
General characteristics
Class and type	Redoutable-class submarine
Displacement	1,572 tonnes (1,547 long tons) (surfaced); 2,092 tonnes (2,059 long tons) (submerged);
Length	92.3 m (302 ft 10 in)
Beam	8.1 m (26 ft 7 in)
Draft	4.4 m (14 ft 5 in) (surfaced)
Propulsion	2 × diesel engines, 6,000 hp (4,474 kW); 2 × electric motors, 2,250 hp (1,678 kW);
Speed	17.5 kn (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph) (surfaced); 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) (submerged);
Range	14,000 nmi (26,000 km; 16,000 mi) at 7 kn (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) (surfaced); 90 nmi (170 km; 100 mi) at 7 kn (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) (submerged);
Test depth	80 m (262 ft) (as built); 120 m (394 ft) (1946);
Complement	5 officers (6 in operations); 66 men;
Armament	11 torpedo tubes; 1 × 100 mm (3.9 in) gun; 1 × 13.2 mm (0.5 in) machine gun; 1 x 20 mm antiaircraft gun (added 1944);

Archimède was a French Navy Redoutable-class submarine of the M6 series commissioned in 1932. She participated in World War II, first on the side of the Allies from 1939 to June 1940, then in the navy of Vichy France until November 1942. She then returned to the Allied side, operating as part of the Free French Naval Forces. She was one of only five – along with Argo, Casabianca, Le Centaure, and Le Glorieux — out of the 31 Redoutable-class submarines to survive the war. She remained in French Navy service after World War II, and was decommissioned in 1952.

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