Bellone-class submarine

Class overview
Unidentified Bellone-class submarine underway at Toulon, 1914–18
Name:	Bellone
Operators:	French Navy
Preceded by:	Amphitrite class
Succeeded by:	Diane class
Built:	1913–18
In service:	1914–35
Completed:	3
Scrapped:	3
General characteristics (as built)
Type:	Submarine
Displacement:	540 t (531 long tons) (surfaced) 804 t (791 long tons) (submerged)
Length:	60.6 m (198 ft 10 in) (o/a)
Beam:	5.4 m (17 ft 9 in) (deep)
Draft:	3.41 m (11 ft 2 in)
Installed power:	2 × 900 PS (660 kW; 890 hp) diesel engines 2 × 400 PS (290 kW; 390 hp) electric motors
Propulsion:	2 shafts
Speed:	14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) (surfaced) 9.5 knots (17.6 km/h; 10.9 mph) (submerged)
Range:	2,300 nmi (4,300 km; 2,600 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) (surfaced) 100 nmi (190 km; 120 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) (submerged)
Test depth:	50 m (164 ft 1 in)
Complement:	28 crew
Armament:	2 × external bow 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes 2 × external stern 450 mm torpedo tubes 4 × single 450 mm rotating torpedo launchers 1 × single 75 mm (3.0 in) Canon de 75 modèle 1897 deck gun

The Bellone class was a group of three submarines built for the French Navy during World War I.

Ships

Two of these three ships, the Gorgone and the Hermione, served in the Adriatic during World War I. The third ship, the Bellone, operated in the Atlantic during that time.^[1] As of 1935, all three ships were in the French Mediterranean Fleet, and during that year were stricken (i.e. removed from the naval register).^[1]

Name	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Completed	Fate
Bellone (Q102)	Arsenal de Rochefort	23 April 1913	8 July 1914	12 July 1917	stricken, 29 July 1935
Hermione (Q103)	Arsenal de Toulon	14 April 1913	15 March 1917	5 February 1918	stricken, 29 July 1935
Gorgone (Q104)	Arsenal de Toulon	2 June 1913	23 November 1915	12 October 1916	stricken, 24 July 1935

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Bellone-class submarine

Bellone Hermione Gorgone

Preceded by: Amphitrite class Followed by: Diane class List of submarine classes of the French Navy

French naval ship classes of World War I

Dreadnought battleships	Courbet Bretagne Normandie^X Lyon^X

Pre-dreadnought battleships	Brennus^S Charles Martel^S Carnot^S Jauréguiberry^S Masséna^S Bouvet^S Charlemagne Henri IV^S Iéna^S Suffren^S République Liberté Danton

Armoured cruisers	Dupuy de Lôme^S Amiral Charner Pothuau^S Jeanne d'Arc^S Gueydon Dupleix Gloire Léon Gambetta Jules Michelet^S Ernest Renan^S Edgar Quinet

Protected cruisers	Amiral Cécille^S Forbin Troude Linois Friant Descartes D'Assas D'Entrecasteaux^S Guichen^S Châteaurenault^S Destrées Jurien de la Gravière^S

Destroyers	Durandal Framée Pertuisane Arquebuse Claymore Branlebas Spahi Voltigeur Chasseur Bouclier Bisson Enseigne Roux Aventurier Arabe

Submarines	Sirène Aigrette Oméga Émeraude Circé Pluviôse Brumaire Archimède^S Mariotte^S Amiral Bourgois^S Charles Brun^S Clorinde Gustave Zédé Amphitrite Bellone Dupuy de Lôme Diane Fulton Lagrange Armide O'Byrne

Seaplane carriers	Foudre^S

S Single ship of class C Completed after the war X Cancelled

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