![]() Sister ship Souffleur in 1926
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Name | Narval |
Operator | French Navy |
Builder | Arsenal de Cherbourg |
Laid down | 19 March 1923 |
Launched | 9 May 1925 |
Commissioned | 23 July 1926 |
Fate | Sunk by a mine off Tunisia on or around 15 December 1940. |
General characteristics | |
Type | Submarine |
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Length | 78.30 m (256 ft 11 in) |
Beam | 6.84 m (22 ft 5 in) |
Draught | 5.10 m (16 ft 9 in) |
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Test depth | 80 m (260 ft) |
Complement | 51 men |
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The French submarine Narval was a Requin-class submarine built for the French Navy in the mid-1920s. Laid down in March 1923, it was launched in May 1925 and commissioned in July 1926. It joined the Free French naval forces at Malta at the time of the French surrender during World War II. On or around 15 December 1940, Narval sank after striking a mine in the same minefield off the Kerkennah Islands that sank her sister ship Morse six months prior.