The Dutch magazine De Prins dated 22 June 1912 page 291 published a photo of this submarine before she was lost 8 June off Cherbourg due to a collission with the French ironclad le St. Louis and probably ripped apart by the prow. The submarine was laid down at Cherbourg in 1904 and launched 7 July 1907. She went down with a crew of 23 or 24 men and sunk to a depth of 53 meter (150').
She belonged to the Pluviose-class built conform the 1905 Programme and was designed by Laubeuf with a displacement of 398 tons surfaced and 550 tons submerged and as dimensions 167'4" x16'4" x 16'3". Fitted out with steam propulsion and 2 du Temple boilers supplying 700 ihp and 540 shp. Their range was 1.500 nautical miles with a speed of 9 knots or 900 nautical miles with a speed of 12 knots if surfaced, submerged the range was just 50 nautical miles by a speed of 5 knots. According to Conway's Fighting Ships 1906-1921 the armament consisted of 1-450mm bow torpedo tube, 2 Drzewicki 450mm torpedo drop-collars, 2-450mm torpedo external cradles abeam trained fore wards and a similar couple trained to the aft.
Another photo can be found on this following link http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vendemiaire-ELD.jpg
She belonged to the Pluviose-class built conform the 1905 Programme and was designed by Laubeuf with a displacement of 398 tons surfaced and 550 tons submerged and as dimensions 167'4" x16'4" x 16'3". Fitted out with steam propulsion and 2 du Temple boilers supplying 700 ihp and 540 shp. Their range was 1.500 nautical miles with a speed of 9 knots or 900 nautical miles with a speed of 12 knots if surfaced, submerged the range was just 50 nautical miles by a speed of 5 knots. According to Conway's Fighting Ships 1906-1921 the armament consisted of 1-450mm bow torpedo tube, 2 Drzewicki 450mm torpedo drop-collars, 2-450mm torpedo external cradles abeam trained fore wards and a similar couple trained to the aft.
Another photo can be found on this following link http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vendemiaire-ELD.jpg
