The ''Bellone class'' was a group of three
submarines built for the
French Navy
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during
World War I
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.
Ships
Two of these three ships, the ''
Gorgone'' and the ''
Hermione
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* Hermione (mythology), only daughter of Menelaus and Helen in Greek mythology and original bearer of the name
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* ''Cadmus et Hermione'', an opera by ...
'', served in the
Adriatic during
World War I
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. The third ship, the ''
Bellone
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'', operated in the Atlantic during that time.
[Fontenoy, Paul. ]
Submarines: An Illustrated History of Their Impact
', p. 87 (ABC-CLIO, 2007). As of 1935, all three ships were in the
French Mediterranean Fleet
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, and during that year were stricken (i.e. removed from the
naval register
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).
See also
*
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.
Each French Navy vessel, including French submarines have ...
Notes
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Submarine classes
World War I submarines of France
Ship classes of the French Navy