Dupuy de Lôme (Q105) was the lead ship

Lead ship

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 of her class of submarine

Submarine

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 of the French Navy

French Navy

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 The vessel was named after the French naval architect Dupuy de Lôme

Dupuy de Lome

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. She had one sister ship, Sané. The boats were designed by M. Hutter and were enlargements of his design.

Dupuy de Lôme was laid down in Toulon

Toulon

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 in 1913, launched on 9 September 1915 and commissioned in July 1916. She was decommissionned in on 24 February 1935, and sold for scrap in Brest

Brest, France

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on 6 August 1938.