List of submarines of France

The submarines of France include nuclear attack submarines and nuclear ballistic missile submarines of various classes, operated by the French Navy as part of the French Submarine Forces. France also builds Scorpène-class submarines for international buyers; the Brazilian submarine Álvaro Alberto, a nuclear-powered boat, will be developed from this platform.

Each French Navy vessel, including French submarines have for military awards and decorations their respective fanion insignia.

Nuclear attack submarines

 * Rubis-class submarine
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Émeraude (1988–present)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Améthyste (1992–present)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Perle (1993–present)


 * Suffren-class submarine
 * Suffren (Q284/S635) (2020–present)
 * Duguay-Trouin (S636) (2023- ) (delivered to the Navy July 2023, working up to full operational status)

Nuclear ballistic missile submarines

 * Triomphant-class submarine
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Le Triomphant (1997–present)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Le Téméraire (1999–present)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Le Vigilant (2004–present)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Le Terrible (2010–present)

Nuclear attack submarines

 * Suffren-class submarine
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Tourville (Laid down 2011)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE De Grasse (Laid down 2014)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Rubis (Laid down 2019)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Casabianca (Laid down 2020)

Nuclear ballistic missile submarines

 * SNLE 3G-class

Retired from service
Each French submarine from Gymnote onwards when ordered/constructed was given a sequential hull number (prefixed by the letter 'Q'). The sequence included submarines built in France for foreign navies, accounting for several gaps in the 'Q' numbering below.

1863 to 1903

 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Plongeur (1863–1872)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Gymnote (Q1) (1888–1908)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Gustave Zédé (Q2) (1893–1909)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Morse (Q3) (1899–1909)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Narval (Q4) (1900–1909)
 * Sirène class (1901–1919)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Sirène (Q5)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Triton (Q6)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Espadon (Q13)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Silure (Q14)
 * Farfadet-class submarine (1901–1913)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Farfadet (Q7) renamed Follet (1908–1913)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Korrigan (Q8)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Gnôme (Q9)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Lutin (Q10)
 * Morse-class submarine (1901–1914)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Français (Q11)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Algérien (Q12)
 * Naïade-class submarine (1903–1914)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Naïade (Q15)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Protée (Q16)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Perle (Q17)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Esturgeon (Q18)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Bonite (Q19)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Thon (Q20)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Souffleur (Q21)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Dorade (Q22)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Lynx (Q23)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Ludion (Q24)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Loutre (Q25)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Castor (Q26)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Phoque (Q27)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Otarie (Q28)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Méduse (Q29)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Oursin (Q30)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Grondin (Q31)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Anguille (Q32)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Alose (Q33)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Truite (Q34)

1904 to 1919

 * Experimental types (varying designs) French submarine X.jpg]]
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE X (Q35) – renamed Dauphin 13 February 1911 (1904–1914)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Z (Q36)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Y (Q37) – (1905–1909)
 * Aigrette class (1904–1919)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Aigrette (Q38)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Cigogne (Q39)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Argonaute (Q40)
 * Sous-marin Topaze.jpg]]Émeraude class (1906–1919)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Émeraude (Q41)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Opale (Q42)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Rubis (Q43)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Saphir (Q44)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Topaze (Q45)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Turquoise (Q46)
 * Circe-Agence Rol (cropped).jpeg]]Circé-class submarine (1907) (1907–1918)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Circé (Q47)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Calypso (Q48)
 * Guêpe-class submarine
 * Guèpe 1 (Q49)
 * Guèpe 2 (Q50)
 * Pluviôse-class submarine
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Pluviôse (Q51)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Ventôse (Q52)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Germinal (Q53)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Floréal (Q54)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Priarial (Q55)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Messidor (Q56)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Thermidor (Q57)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Fructidor (Q58)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Vendémiaire (Q59)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Papin (Q64)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Fresnel (Q65)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Berthelot (Q66)
 * Sous-marin Monge.jpg [[FRENCH SUBMARINE Monge]] (Q67)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Ampère (Q68)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Gay-Lussac (Q69)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Watt (Q75)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Cugnot (Q76)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Giffard (Q77)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Archimède (Q73) (1909–1919)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Charles Brun (Q89) (1911–1915)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Mariotte (Q74) (1911–1915)
 * Brumaire-class submarine (1911–1930)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Brumaire (Q60)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Frimaire (Q62)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Nivôse (Q63)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Foucault (Q70)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Euler (Q71)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Franklin (Q72)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Faraday (Q78)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Volta (Q79)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Newton (Q80)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Montgolfier (Q81)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Bernoulli (Q83)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Joule (Q84)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Coulomb (Q85)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Arago (Q86)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Curie (Q87)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Le Verrier (Q88)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Amiral Bourgois (Q82) (1912–1919)
 * Clorinde-class submarine (1913–1926)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Clorinde (Q90)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Cornélie (Q91)
 * Gustave Zédé-class submarine (1913–1937)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Gustave Zédé (Q92)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Néréide (Q93)
 * Amphitrite-class submarine (1914–1935)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Amphitrite (Q94)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Astrée (Q95)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Artémis (Q96)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Aréthuse (Q97)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Atalante (Q98)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Amarante (Q99)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Ariane (Q100)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Andromaque (Q101)
 * Bellone-class submarine (1914–1935)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Bellone (Q102)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Hermione (Q103)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Gorgone (Q104)
 * Dupuy de Lôme-class submarine (1915–1935)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Dupuy de Lôme (Q105)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Sané (Q106)
 * Diane class (1915–1935)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Diane (Q107)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Daphné (Q108)
 * Armide-class submarine (1915–1935)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Armide (SD 2) ex-Japanese
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Antigone (SD 3) ex-Greek
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Amazone (SD 4) ex-Greek
 * Joessel-class submarine (1917–1935)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Joessel (Q109)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Fulton (Q110)
 * Six more of this class (Q115-Q120) were in the 1915 Programme but were cancelled (never named)
 * Lagrange-class submarine (1917–1937)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Laplace (Q111)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Lagrange (Q112)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Regnault (Q113)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Romazotti (Q114)
 * UA class (Germany) (1918–1937)
 * Jean-Autric (ex U-105)
 * Léon Mignot (ex U-108)
 * Pierre Marast (ex U-162)
 * Jean Roulier (ex U-166)
 * UE class (Germany) (1918–1935)
 * Victor Reveille (ex U-79)
 * René Audry (ex U-119)
 * German Type U 139 submarine (Germany) (1918–1935)
 * Helbronn (ex U-139)
 * German Type UB II submarine (Germany) (1916–1937)
 * Roland Morillot (ex UB-23)
 * Trinité-Schillemans (ex UB-94)
 * Carissan (ex UB-99)
 * Jean Corre (ex UB-155)

1919 to 1944

 * O'Byrne-class submarine (1919–1935)
 * O'Byrne
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Henri Fournier
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Louis Dupetit-Thouars
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Maurice Callot Minelaying submarine (1922–1936)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Pierre Chailley Minelaying submarine (1923–1936)
 * 600 Series (1925–1946)
 * Ariane-class submarine (1925–1942)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Ondine
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Ariane
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Eurydice
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Danaé
 * Sirène-class submarine (1925–1942)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Sirène (Q123)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Naïade (Q124)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Galatée (Q132)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Nymphe (Q133)
 * Circé-class submarine (1927–1942)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Circé (Q125)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Calypso (Q126)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Thétis (Q134)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Doris (Q135)
 * Argonaute-class submarine (1932–1946)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Aréthuse (NN7)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Argonaute (NN6)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Atalante (Q162)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE La Vestale (Q176)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE La Sultane (Q177)
 * Orion-class submarine (1932–1943)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Orion (Q165)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Ondine (Q166)
 * Diane-class submarine (1932–1946)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Diane (NN4)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Méduse (NN5)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Amphitrite (Q159)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Antiope (Q160)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Amazone (Q161)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Orphée (Q163)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Oréade (Q164)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE La Psyché (Q174)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Sibylle (Q175)
 * Requin class (1926–1946)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Requin (Q115)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Souffleur (Q116)
 * French Submarine Morse Q117.jpg [[FRENCH SUBMARINE Morse]] (Q117)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Narval (Q118)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Marsouin (Q119)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Dauphin (Q120)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Caïman (Q127)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Phoque (Q128)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Espadon (Q129)
 * Rubis.jpg]] Saphir class Minelaying submarines (1930–1949)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Saphir (Q145)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Turquoise (Q146)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Nautilus (Q152)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Rubis (Q158)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Diamant (Q173)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Perle (Q184)
 * French Redoutable class submarine.jpg]]Redoutable class (1931–1952)
 * Type M-5
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Redoutable (Q136)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Vengeur (Q137)
 * Type M-6
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Pascal (Q138)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Pasteur (Q139)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Henri Poincaré (Q140)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Poncelet (Q141)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Archimède (Q142)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Fresnel (Q143)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Monge (Q144)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Achille (Q147)
 * Sous marin Ajax.jpg [[FRENCH SUBMARINE Ajax]] (Q148)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Actéon (Q149)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Achéron (Q150)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Argo (Q151)
 * Promethee 1932.jpg [[FRENCH SUBMARINE Prométhée]] (Q153)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Persée (Q154)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Protée (Q155)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Pégase (Q156)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Phénix (Q157)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE L'Espoir (Q167)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Le Glorieux (Q168)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Le Centaure (Q169)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Le Héros (Q170)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Le Conquérant (Q171)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Le Tonnant (Q172)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Agosta (Q178)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Bévéziers (Q179)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Ouessant (Q180)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Sidi Ferruch (Q181)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Sfax (Q182)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Casabianca (Q183)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Surcouf (1934–1942)
 * Ffs Junon FL4368.jpg]]Minerve-class submarine (1936–1954)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Minerve (Q185)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Junon (Q186)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Vénus (Q187)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Iris (Q188)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Pallas (Q189)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Céres (Q190)
 * The Royal Navy during the Second World War A18839.jpg]]British U-class submarine (1943–1946)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Curie
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Doris
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Morse
 * Aurore-class submarine (1940–1960)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Aurore
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Créole
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Bayadère – never completed
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Favorite
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Africaine
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Astrée
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Andromède
 * Antigone (Q202) – construction abandoned 1940
 * Andromaque (Q203) – construction abandoned 1940
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Artémis
 * Armide (Q207) – construction abandoned 1940
 * Hermione (Q211) – construction abandoned 1940
 * Gorgone (Q212) – construction abandoned 1940
 * Clorinde (Q213) – construction abandoned 1940
 * Cornélie (Q214) – construction abandoned 1940
 * Roland Morillot class (cancelled 1940)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Roland Morillot
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE La Praya
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE La Martinique
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE La Guadeloupe
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE La Réunion
 * unnamed (Q228)
 * unnamed (Q229)
 * unnamed (Q230)
 * Émeraude-class submarine Minelaying submarines (authorised only, cancelled 1940)
 * Émeraude (Q197)
 * Agate (Q208)
 * Corail (Q209)
 * Escarboucle (Q210)
 * Phénix-class submarine (cancelled 1940)
 * Vendémiaire (Q215)
 * Brumaire (Q216)
 * Frimaire (Q217)
 * Nivôse (Q218)
 * Pluviôse (Q219)
 * Ventôse (Q220)
 * Germinal (Q221)
 * Floréal (Q222)
 * Prairial (Q223)
 * Messidor (Q224)
 * Thermidor (Q225)
 * Fructidor (Q226)
 * Phénix (Q227)

1944 to 1971

 * German Type VII submarine (Germany) (1944–1963)
 * Millé (ex GS U-471)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Laubie (ex GS U-766) (Germany) (1945–1959)
 * German Type IX submarine (Unterseeboot type IX)
 * Blaison (ex GS U-123 (1940))
 * Bouan (ex GS U-510)
 * Type XXI submarine (Germany) (1946–1967)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Roland Morillot (ex U-2518)
 * Type XXIII submarine (Germany) (1946)
 * GS U-2326
 * Saphir-class submarine (United Kingdom) (1951–1959)
 * Sibylle (ex – HMS Sportsman (P229))
 * Saphir (ex – HMS Satyr (P214))
 * Sirène (ex – HMS Spiteful (P227))
 * Sultane (ex – HMS Statesman (P246))
 * Narval class (1957–1992)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Narval (Q231)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Marsouin (Q232)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Dauphin (Q233)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Requin (Q234)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Espadon (Q237)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Morse (Q238)
 * Aréthuse-class submarine (1958–1981)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Argonaute (Q235)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Aréthuse (Q236)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Amazone (Q239)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Ariane (Q240)
 * Daphné-class submarine (1964–1996)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Daphné (Q241)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Diane (Q242)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Doris (Q243)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Eurydice (Q245)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Flore (Q246)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Galatée (Q247)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Minerve (Q248)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Junon (Q249)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Vénus (Q250)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Psyché (Q253)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Sirène (Q254)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Gymnote (Q251) (1966–1986)

1971 to present

 * Redoutable-class submarine (1971–2008)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Redoutable (Q252) (1971–1991)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Terrible (Q255) (1973–1996)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Foudroyant (Q257) (1974–1998)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Indomptable (1976–2005)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Tonnant (1980–1999)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Inflexible (1985–2008)
 * Agosta-class submarine (1977–2001)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Agosta (1977–1997)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Bévéziers (1977–1998)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE La Praya (1978–2000)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Ouessant (1978–2001)
 * Rubis-class submarine (1984 – )
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Saphir (1984–2019)
 * Rubis (S601) (1983-2022)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Casabianca (1987–2023)
 * FRENCH SUBMARINE Casabianca (1987–2023)