French submarine Astrée (Q200)
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![]() Model of Africaine, sister boat of Astrée
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Name | Astrée |
Namesake | Astraea |
Ordered | 1938 |
Builder | Nantes |
Laid down | November 1938 |
Captured | by Nazi Germany in June 1940 |
Fate | Incomplete, captured by German in June 1940[1] |
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Name | UF-3 |
Acquired | June 1940 |
Fate | Captured by Allies |
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Name | Astrée |
Namesake | Astraea |
Launched | 3 May 1946 |
Commissioned | October 1949[1] |
Decommissioned | 1962[1] |
Stricken | 27 November 1965[1] |
Fate | Scrapped |
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Class and type | Aurore-class submarine |
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Length | 73.5 m (241 ft) |
Beam | 6.5 m (21 ft) |
Draught | 4.2 m (14 ft) |
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Test depth | 100 metres (330 ft) |
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Astrée was an Aurore-class submarine of the French Navy.
Still incomplete, she was captured by the Germans during World War II in June 1940. She was renamed UF-3 on 13 May 1941, but never completed during the German occupation of France. She was recaptured and completed under her original name. Astrée was taken out of service in 1962, and stricken on 27 November 1965 as the Q404.[1]
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