French submarine Junon (1935)

History
France
Name	Junon
Namesake	Juno
Builder	Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, Le Havre
Laid down	9 June 1932
Launched	15 September 1935
Commissioned	20 September 1937
Decommissioned	6 December 1954
Fate	Scrapped, 1960
General characteristics
Type	Submarine
Displacement	662 long tons (673 t) surfaced; 856 long tons (870 t) submerged;
Length	68.1 m (223 ft 5 in)
Beam	5.6 m (18 ft 4 in)
Draught	4 m (13 ft 1 in)
Propulsion	2 × Vickers-Normand diesel engines, 1,800 bhp (1,342 kW); 2 × Electric motors, 1,230 shp (917 kW);
Speed	14.2 knots (26.3 km/h; 16.3 mph) surfaced; 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) submerged;
Range	2,000 nmi (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) surfaced; 85 nmi (157 km; 98 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) submerged;
Test depth	80 m (260 ft)
Complement	42
Armament	1 × 75 mm (3 in)/35 Model 1928 deck gun with 150 rounds; 2 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) AA machine guns; 6 × 550 mm (21.7 in) internal torpedo tubes (4 bow/2 stern) with 12 torpedoes; 3 × 400 mm (15.7 in) external torpedo tubes;

Junon (Q186) was a Minerve-class submarine of the French Navy. During World War II she served in the Free French Naval Forces.

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