French_submarine_Ariane_(1914)

French submarine <i>Ariane</i> (1914)

French submarine Ariane (1914)

French Amphitrite-class submarine

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Ariane.

The French submarine Ariane was one of eight Amphitrite-class submarines built for the French Navy during the 1910s and completed during World War I.

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During World War I, Ariane was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Cap Bon, French Tunisia, on 19 June 1917 by the Imperial German Navy submarine SM UC-22.[1][2]

Divers on the wreck of Ariane with the engine compartment hatch open

The wreck of Ariane was discovered[3] by divers and identified on 21 September 2020 off Ras Adar at a depth of 50 metres (164 ft).

Notes

  1. [1]
    "French Navy". Naval History. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  2. [2]
    "Ariane". Uboat.net. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  3. [3]
    "Exclusif : Découverte en Tunisie, de l'épave d'un sous-marin français disparu". Réalités Online (in French). 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2020-09-27.

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