French submarine Casabianca (1935)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Casabianca.
Casabianca
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History
France
NameCasabianca
NamesakeLuc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca
Ordered1 June 1925
Laid down7 March 1931
Launched2 February 1935
Commissioned1 January 1937
Stricken12 February 1952
HomeportToulon
FateScrapped in 1956
General characteristics
Class and typeRedoutable-class submarine
Displacement
  • 1500 tonnes (surfaced)
  • 2000 tonnes (submerged)
Length92.30 m (302.8 ft)
Propulsion
  • 2 diesels, of 4,300 hp
  • 2 electric engines of 1,200 hp
Speed
  • 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) (surfaced)
  • 10 knots (submerged)
Range
  • 14,000 nautical miles (26,000 km) at 7 knots (13 km/h; 8 mph),
  • 10,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) at 10 knots (20 km/h; 10 mph)
  • 4,000 nautical miles (7,000 km) at 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
  • 90 nautical miles (170 km) at 7 knots (submerged)
Test depth80 meters
Complement
  • 5 officers (6 in operations)
  • 79 men
Armament
  • 11 torpedo tubes
  • 1 × 100 mm gun
  • 1 × 13.2 mm machine gun

Casabianca (Q183) was a Redoutable-class submarine of the French Navy. The class is also known as the "1500-ton class" and were termed in French de grande patrouille. She was named after Luc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca. Launched in 1935, she entered service in 1936. She escaped from Toulon during the scuttling of the fleet there on 27 November 1942, and continued in service with the Allied forces. Casabianca, commanded by Capitaine de frégate Jean L'Herminier, had a role in the liberation of Corsica, and was an important link between occupied France and the Free French government based in Algiers.

Casabianca was one of only five of the 31 Redoutable-class submarines to survive the Second World War.[a]
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