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The French submarine Rubis (H4, 202, P15) was a Saphir-class minelaying submarine which first served in the French submarine force, then the Free French Naval Forces (FNFL) during the Second World War and back with the French Navy. The boat was awarded numerous awards.
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Pluton was a fast minelaying cruiser built for the French Navy in the late 1920s. She was also able to carry 1,000 troops on her mine deck as a fast troop transport. Shortly after completion she was modified and became a gunnery training ship, replacing the elderly armored cruiser Gueydon.
In the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I, mines laid by the Ottoman Empire's Navy's Nusret sank HMS Irresistible, HMS Ocean, and the French battleship Bouvet [6] in the Dardanelles on 18 March 1915. [7] In World War II, the British employed the Abdiel minelayers both as minelayers and as transports to isolated garrisons, such as Malta and ...
The Pluton-class minelayers were a pair of ships built just before World War I for the French Navy as their first purpose-built minelayers.They spent the first few months of the war laying minefields off captured Belgian ports and in the English Channel in conjunction with British ships.
Category: Minelayers of the French Navy. ... French cruiser Pluton; Pluton-class minelayer (1912) R. French submarine Rubis (1931) S. French submarine Saphir (1928)
The List of ships of World War II contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner ...
Finnish minelayer Louhi 1 ship in service 1918 to 1945; Finnish minelayer Keihässalmi 1 ship in service from 1957 to 1994; Hämeenmaa-class minelayer 2 ships in service from 1992