French Navy releases hundreds of ship plans into the public domain

[Subnuts]

I thought this was pretty cool.
http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/02fonds-collections/banquedocuments/planbato/planbato/listebato/listebato.php

Pick a ship, and a new page will open. Click on "plans de bateaux", and then select a plan to look at. A new window will open with a preview, but you can save the full-size plan by right-clicking on the link and selecting "save as".

Enjoy!

[Perilscope]

Very nice find Subnuts!:up:

He! He! I feel at ease in there, I am more Français than English. ;)

[TteFAboB]

Let's build one. :up:

[AG124]

Just wondering - how many nations have released WWII-era ship plans into the public domain?

[Sailor Steve]

Pretty nice!:sunny:

[Camaero]

Let's build one. :up:

Yes! All of us at Subsim need to chip in and we can all construct one of those babies.

[Perilscope]

I was looking at the submarines, and I have to admit they are nice looking subs. For example if you look at the pictures of the "ACHILLE 1930 (http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/02fonds-collections/banquedocuments/planbato/planbato/V_photos/photobato.php?id=4)". There is a picture where you can see the stern pretty clearly. Nice touch that flat look.

Even the coning tower of those types of subs is futuristic for pre-WW2 era. You can see the coning in the first picture of both the "ACTEON 1929 (http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/02fonds-collections/banquedocuments/planbato/planbato/V_photos/photobato.php?id=6)" "ACHERON 1929 (http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/02fonds-collections/banquedocuments/planbato/planbato/V_photos/photobato.php?id=3#)" and "AJAX 1930" (http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/02fonds-collections/banquedocuments/planbato/planbato/V_photos/photobato.php?id=8).
Those coning tower are clearly more hydrodynamic than the normal German U-Boats, and as for the Type XXI "Elektroboote", we can even say more or less it's a copy of those much earlier French coning tower.

I do not know about their performance, but nice looking subs for the construction date.:yep:

[Martin1813]

very nice looking those French 1500t subs

But they had quite bad performance in the war because they were already old-fashioned.
They were designed in 1924-25 and most of them were scuttled in Toulon in november 1942.

Length: 92,30 m
Beam: 8,20 m
Draft: 4,90 m

speed : 20 knots (surface)
10 // (submerged)

100mm deck gun

11 torpedo tubes (9 of 550mm & 2 of 400mm)