Profile Warship 26 Rubis Free French Submarine

d' Escadre and H.L.G. Rousselot: 1972 UK, softcover 48 pages, Monograph of this ship in detail, with many photos. A detailed historical overview of the French Saphir-class minelaying submarine Rubis, focusing on its construction in 1931, service in the French Navy, and transition to the Free French Naval Forces during World War II, where it conducted 22 operational patrols and sank or damaged numerous enemy vessels through minelaying and torpedoing. The book features black-and-white photographs, illustrations, and a color center-spread, emphasizing Rubis's significant wartime achievements, including sinking over 21,000 GRT of shipping and earning the Ordre de la Libération, before its postwar use as a training vessel and eventual scuttling in 1958. in very good condition