French submarine Marsouin

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Two submarines of the French Navy have been named after the Porpoise, known in France as Marsouin:

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French submarine <i>Marsouin</i> (1924)

The French submarine Marsouin was a Requin-class submarine built for the French Navy in the mid-1920s. Laid down in November 1922, it was launched in December 1924 and commissioned in September 1927. It escaped from Toulon on 27 November 1942 and joined the Free French Naval Forces; it was later disarmed at Oran in April 1944, and stricken on 28 February 1946.

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