Navy | The French Navy |
Type | Submarine |
Class | Redoutable |
Pennant | |
Built by | Arsenal de Brest (Brest, France) |
Ordered | |
Laid down | 1 Sep 1928 |
Launched | 28 May 1930 |
Commissioned | 1 Feb 1934 |
Lost | 24 Sep 1940 |
History | Sunk off Dakar on 24 September 1940 by the British destroyer HMS Fortune. Ajax had left harbor in an attempt to attack the Anglo-FNFL forces offshore, but was detected on sonar, depth charges, forced to the surface and finally sunk by gunfire shortly after 0700 hrs. |
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