Raven class, French Fleet Submarine laid down 1909
Displacement:
750 t light; 771 t standard; 1,002 t normal; 1,183 t full load
Loading submergence
80 tons/feet
Dimensions:
180.45 ft x 24.93 ft x 15.91 ft (normal load)
55.00 m x 7.60 m x 4.85 m
Armament:
1 - 2.95" / 75 mm guns
Weight of broadside 13 lbs / 6 kg
6 - 17.7" / 450
mm submerged torpedo tubes (4 fwd, 2 aft)
Operational depth - 102m/335 ft
Emergency depth - 163m/536 ft
crush depth - 255/838 ft
Machinery:
Diesel Internal combustion generators plus batteries,
Electric motors, 1 shaft, 1,655 shp
/ 1,235 Kw = 15.00 kts
Range 10,000nm at 10.00 kts
Complement:
44 - 57
Cost:
£0.038 million / $0.152 million
Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 2 tons, 0.2 %
Machinery: 75 tons, 7.5 %
Hull,
fittings & equipment: 508 tons, 50.7 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 253 tons, 25.2 %
Miscellaneous
weights: 165 tons, 16.5 %
Metacentric height 0.8
Remarks:
Hull space for machinery, storage & compartmentation is adequate
Room for accommodation
& workspaces is extremely poor
Ship has quick, lively roll, not a steady gun platform
Caution: Lacks
seaworthiness - very limited seakeeping ability
Estimated overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Relative margin of stability: 1.17
Shellfire
needed to sink: 637 lbs / 289 Kg = 49.5 x 3.0 " / 75 mm shells
(Approx weight of penetrating shell hits needed
to sink ship excluding critical hits)
Torpedoes needed to sink: 0.3
(Approx number of typical torpedo
hits needed to sink ship)
Relative steadiness as gun platform: 0 %
(Average = 50 %)
Relative
rocking effect from firing to beam: 0.00
Relative quality as seaboat: 0.00
Hull form characteristics:
Block coefficient: 0.490
Sharpness coefficient: 0.37
Hull speed
coefficient 'M': 5.51
'Natural speed' for length: 13.43 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed:
50 %
Trim: 50
(Maximise stabilty/flotation = 0, Maximise steadiness/seakeeping = 100)
Estimated hull characteristics & strength:
Underwater volume absorbed by magazines and engineering spaces:
84.9 %
Relative accommodation and working space: 0.0 %
(Average = 100%)
Displacement factor:
305 %
(Displacement relative to loading factors)
Relative cross-sectional hull strength: 3.37
(Structure weight / hull surface area: 115 lbs / square foot or 562 Kg / square metre)
Relative longitudinal hull
strength: 3.34
(for 0.00 ft / 0.00 m average freeboard, freeboard adjustment -9.56 ft)
Relative composite
hull strength: 3.35