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Class overview | |
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Name | Charles Brun |
Operators | ![]() |
Preceded by | Amiral Bourgois |
Succeeded by | Clorinde class |
Built | 1907–1912 |
Completed | 1 |
Scrapped | 1 |
History | |
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Name | Charles Brun |
Namesake | Charles Brun |
Ordered | 31 December 1906 |
Builder | Arsenal de Toulon |
Laid down | 4 April 1908 |
Launched | 14 September 1910 |
Stricken | 7 June 1920 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 30 December 1920 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Type | Submarine |
Displacement | |
Length | 45.6 m (149 ft 7 in) (o/a) |
Beam | 4 m (13 ft 1 in) |
Draft | 3.6 m (11 ft 10 in) |
Installed power | |
Propulsion | |
Speed |
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Range | |
Test depth | 30 m (98 ft 5 in) |
Complement | 25 |
Armament |
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Charles Brun was one of four experimental submarines ordered for the French Navy in 1906. Each boat was built to a different design and Charles Brun was intended to test a novel powerplant. Although the shore-based prototype installation was successful, it was a failure when evaluated aboard the submarine, and the boat was never commissioned for active service. Her hull was stripped of its equipment and was used to test a floating drydock in 1914. During the First World War, the hull was ordered to be converted into a water tank in 1916, but it is not certain if this was actually done before it was sold for scrap in 1920.