| Navy | The French Navy |
| Type | Submarine |
| Class | Redoutable |
| Pennant | |
| Built by | Arsenal de Brest (Brest, France) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 1 Sep 1928 |
| Launched | 28 May 1930 |
| Commissioned | 29 Jun 1933 |
| Lost | 18 Jun 1940 |
| History | Scuttled at Brest on 18 June 1940 to prevent her capture by the Germans. Achille was in drydock and unable to move under own power when the germans entered the city, leaving no alternative but to scuttle. |
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Notable events involving Achille include:
18 May 1940
At 0050A/18, HMS Tetrarch (Lt.Cdr. R.G. Mills, RN), sighted another submarine bearing 120° at a range of 1000 yards. Both submarines subsequently dived. It was thought the submarine sighted may have been the Achille (Lieutenant de vaisseau (Lt.) E.J. Michaud) which was indeed the case.
[Neiher patrol report of Tetrarch or Achille give a position of this encounter.] (1)
Sources
- ADM 199/1849 + ADM 199/1857
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.