| Navy | The French Navy |
| Type | Submarine |
| Class | Diane |
| Pennant | |
| Built by | Ch Augustin Normand (Le Havre, France) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 4 Jan 1928 |
| Launched | 13 May 1930 |
| Commissioned | 1 Sep 1932 |
| Lost | 9 Nov 1942 |
| History | Scuttled off Oran on 9 November 1942. |
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Notable events involving Diane include:
11 May 1941
HMS Truant (Lt.Cdr. H.A.V. Haggard, RN) and the Vichy-French merchant Gallium (1775 GRT, built 1924) are intercepted by a Vichy French force of one destroyer and four submarines. Gallium contacted the destroyer and then set course to follow the French force.
0150A/11 - In position 36°50'N, 00°45'W, sighted a French destroyer and four submarines in line ahead. (This was the Vichy French torpedo boat La Bayonnaise and the submarines Antiope, Diane, Eurydice and Thetis.)
0158A/11 - Gallium signalled the destroyer that she had been seized by the British submarine.
0200A/11 - The French destroyer ordered Gallium to follow her. Gallium proceeded accordingly.
0220A/11 - Truant signalled a protest to the French destroyer that Gallium had been ordered to proceed to Gibraltar for examination. The destroyer replied that she had been ordered to escort Gallium to France. (1)
Sources
- ADM 199/1861
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.