French submarine Pierre Chailley

*Pierre Chailley*
	Pierre Chailley sometime before February 1925.
History
France
Name	Paul Chailley
Namesake	Paul Étienne Pierre Chailley (1886–1914), French naval officer
Operator	French Navy
Ordered	18 May 1917
Builder	Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, Le Havre, France
Laid down	May 1917
Launched	19 December 1922
Renamed	Pierre Chailley 15 February 1923
Namesake	Paul Étienne Pierre Chailley (1886–1914), French naval officer
Commissioned	1 August 1923
Decommissioned	13 May 1936
Stricken	13 May 1936
Identification	No pennant number
Fate	Condemned 14 May 1936; Sold 16 April 1937; Scrapped;
General characteristics
Class and type	Unique minelayer submarine
Displacement	884 long tons (898 t) (surfaced); 1,191 long tons (1,210 t) (submerged);
Length	70 m (229 ft 8 in)
Beam	7.52 m (24 ft 8 in)
Draft	4.04 m (13 ft 3 in)
Propulsion	2 x Sulzer two-stroke diesel engines, 1,800 hp (1,342 kW) ; 2 x electric motors, 1,400 hp (1,044 kW) ; Two screws;
Speed	13.75 knots (25.5 km/h; 15.8 mph) (surfaced); 8.5 knots (15.7 km/h; 9.8 mph) (submerged);
Range	2,800 nmi (5,190 km; 3,220 mi) at 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) (surface); 80 nmi (148 km; 92 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) (submerged);
Complement	4 officers, 40 men
Armament	4 × 450 mm (18 in) bow torpedo tubes; 2 × 450 mm (18 in) external torpedo tubes; 6 x torpedoes; 1 x 100-millimetre (3.9 in) deck gun; 24 or 40 x 200 kg (441 lb) mines;

Pierre Chailley was a French Navy minelayer submarine commissioned in 1923. She was the ancestor of the Saphir-class submarines, which were the last French minelayer submarines. She was decommissioned in 1936.

Pierre Chailley — originally named Paul Chailley — was named for the commanding officer of the submarine Curie, Lieutenant de vaisseau Paul Étienne Pierre Chailley, killed during World War I when two Austro-Hungarian Navy ships sank Curie on 20 December 1914.

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