An item referred to the magazine Schiffbau reporting that the French navy still had a lot of problems with the engines for her submarines. On board of the submarine Foucault already in the past suffering engine problems exploded after a voyage of some hours her port engine. Hot oil was spread over 8 crewmembers of which two were seriously wounded. Some months earlier was the boats harassed by a similar explosion just like the Coulomb and according to some rumours also the Curie.
