 Curie starts out from Holy Loch on her first big patrol, 20 August 1943. Events 636 - Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of Syria and Palestine Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. |
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| Name: | HMS Vox / Sous-Marin Curie |
| Builder: | Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Laid down: | 29 April 1942 |
| Launched: | 23 January 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 2 May 1943 |
| Out of service: | 2 May 1943 transferred to FNFL |
| Reinstated: | July 1946 returned to Royal Navy |
| Fate: | Scrapped, May 1949 at Milford Haven |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: |
Surfaced - 540 tons standard, 630 tons full load Submerged - 740 tons |
| Length: | 196 ft 9 in (60. Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company in Barrow-in-Furness is an industrial town and Seaport in Cumbria, England. Events 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans. Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1194 - King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1194 - King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Les Forces Navales Françaises Libres ("Free French Naval Forces" were the naval arm of the Free French Forces during the Second World War. Milford Haven (Aberdaugleddau meaning "mouth of the two Rivers Cleddau" is a town in Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales. 0 m) |
| Beam: | 16 ft 1 in (4. 9 m) ) |
| Draught: | 15 ft 2 in (4. 6 m) |
| Propulsion: |
2 shaft diesel-electric |
| Speed: |
11. 25 knots (20. 8 km/h) max surfaced 9 knots (17 km/h) max submerged |
| Complement: | 4 officers, 33 men (in French service) |
| Armament: |
4 bow internal, 2 bow external 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes: 8 - 10 torpedoes 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) gun 3 x AA machine guns |
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The French submarine Curie was a British-built U class submarine, a member of the third group of that class to be built. Design and development These small submarines of around 630 tons were originally intended as unarmed training vessels to replace the ageing H class, to be used as Laid down as HMS Vox for the Royal Navy she was transferred to the Free French Naval Forces on the day she was commissioned, where she served as Sous-Marin Curie from 1943-46, but retaining her pennant number of P67[1]. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore known as the Senior Service) Les Forces Navales Françaises Libres ("Free French Naval Forces" were the naval arm of the Free French Forces during the Second World War. In the modern Royal Navy and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth, ships are identified by pennant numbers (sometimes referred to as pendant During her absence a later long hull U class submarine Pennant number 73 took the name Vox, serving in the Far East during 1945 and being scrapped on 1 May 1946. Ships The vessels which were ordered are shown below in their programme order (not all completed construction The first eight vessels were ordered on 5 December The Far East is a term often used by people in the Western world to refer to the countries of East Asia. Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. When P67 returned to the Royal Navy in July 1946 she re-assumed the name Vox[2], thus replacing her replacement.
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Service
Curie was handed over to the Free French Naval Forces on 2 May 1943, at a ceremony at Vickers' works in Barrow, north west England. Events 1194 - King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Barrow-in-Furness is an industrial town and Seaport in Cumbria, England. General de Gaulle was present at the occasion, when RN sailors and Vickers workers saluted the raising of the Cross of Lorraine[3]. Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle ( ( 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French General and statesman who led the Free French This article is about a symbol For the film see The Cross of Lorraine. She was named after the earlier French submarine Curie, which saw action in World War I. The French submarine Curie (Q87 was a French Submarine of the Brumaire -class World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All
After a working up period (during which her screws were damaged on 21 May 1943), her first patrol was to the Norwegian coast in June-July 1943. Events 878 - Syracuse Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Up to 3 August 1943, when Free French Naval Forces amalgamated with those from French North Africa, she had been on patrol for 60 days and spent 192 hours submerged[4]. Events 8 - Roman Empire General Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
On the night of 21 June 1944 she bombarded construction sites for shore batteries at Cap Gros on the Mediterranean coast, and observed several hits. Events 524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce. Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Several weeks later she was working with a British flotilla in the Dodecanese, sinking a cargo ship on 3 August. A flotilla (from Spanish meaning a flota of small ships and this from French flotte) or naval flotilla, is a formation of small The Dodecanese ( Greek Δωδεκάνησα Dodekánisa 'twelve islands' are a group of 12 larger plus 150 smaller Greek islands in the Aegean Events 8 - Roman Empire General Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus. On 2 October in the same area she sank the merchant ships Czar Ferdinand and Brunhild (the former French wine-tanker Bacchus)[5]. Events 1187 - Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule
In 1945 Curie relocated from Plymouth to Brest in France, subsequently moving for a refit to Lorient where she stayed until March 1946. Plymouth ( is a city and unitary authority area on the coast of Devon, England about south west of London. Brest (bʁɛst in French, in Breton) is a city in the Finistère department in Bretagne in northwestern France. Lorient, or L'Orient, (An Oriant is a commune and a Seaport in the Morbihan département, of Brittany. She was then on detached duty to a detection school at Casablanca and returned to the Royal Navy in July 1946 where she regained the name HMS Vox. Casablanca (in Standard Arabic: الدار البيضاء ad-Dār al-Bayḍāʼ; Moroccan Arabic: dar beïda الدار البيضا
Insignia
The badge of HMS Vox is a horn or cornucopia surmounted by a trident. A horn is a pointed projection of the Skin on the head of various Mammals consisting of a covering of horn ( Keratin and other Proteins The cornucopia ( Latin: Cornu Copiae) is a symbol of food and abundance dating back to the 5th century BC, also referred to as horn 'o' plenty A trident (ˈtrаɪdənt also called a leister or gig, is a three- pronged Spear. That of Curie was of similar pattern as Royal Navy badges. The badge shows a stag's head and the inscription "Pola 1914", recalling the World War I exploit when the first Curie was lost. [6]. The ship's mascot was a terrier named Radium. A terrier is a Dog of any one of many breeds or Landraces of terrier type which are typically small wiry very active and fearless dogs
References
- ^ Submariners' Association website: HMS Vox page
- ^ British Submarines of WWII website
- ^ Truffert, A. Aux Postes de Combat. Paris: Editions G. P. (1945). Chapter 7.
- ^ Historique des Forces Navales Françaises Libres, Vol 1, 2nd edition. Service historique de la marine (1990)
- ^ H. Le Masson, Les Sous-Marins français des origines à nos jours. Brest: Éditions de la Cité (1980).
- ^ www.chez.com
External links
- Submariners Association - U and V class submarines
- Submarine Curie website (in French). Several unusual photographs.
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