Saphir-class submarine (1928)
Ships

Saphir-class submarine (1928)

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Saphir-class submarines

Name	Laid down	launched	commissioned	fate

Saphir	25 May 1926	20 December 1928	30 September 1930	Captured by Italian forces on 8 December 1942, renamed FR 112. Seized by German forces on 15 September 1943 in Naples and scuttled.

Turquoise	20 October 1926	16 May 1929	10 September 1930	Captured by Italian forces on 8 December 1942, renamed FR 116. Sunk on 6 May 1943 off Tunisia.

Nautilus	8 August 1927	21 March 1930	15 July 1931	Laid down on the centenary of the birth of Jules Verne. Captured by Italian forces on 8 December 1942, then sunk by an air attack on 31 January 1943 at Bizerte.

Rubis	3 April 1929	30 September 1931	4 April 1933	Used successfully by the Free French Forces from 1940, stricken from the naval register 4 October 1949 and scuttled in the Mediterranean Sea in 1958.

Diamant	21 July 1930	18 May 1933	20 June 1934	Scuttled on 27 November 1942, at Toulon, refloated in March 1943 by Italy but sunk again in 1944.

Perle	21 July 1931	30 July 1935	1 March 1937	Used by the Allies after Operation Torch, sunk on 8 July 1944 by a British plane after being mistaken for a German U-boat at 55°27' North, 33°50' West.

Sentence(s)

Saphir was renamed as FR 112 and Turquoise was renamed as FR 116.

final_sentence: Saphir was renamed as FR 112 and Turquoise was renamed as FR 116.