[1] Her keel was laid down by Ateliers et Chantiers de la Seine-Maritime at Le Trait, France, on 22 August 1929.

In 1940 the Allies made plans to intervene in Norway to prevent the shipment of iron ore from Sweden to Germany via Narvik on the Norwegian coast.

Allied operations related to Norway became of greater urgency when the German invasion of both countries began on 9 April 1940.

[1] By 6 May 1940 the Allies had indications that a German invasion of the Netherlands was imminent, and that day Horton ordered all available submarines to put to sea.

At 23:57 on 11 May 1940, Amazone fired two torpedoes at a submarine she identified as a German U-boat in the North Sea off the coast of the Netherlands at 52°55′N 004°28′E / 52.917°N 4.467°E / 52.917; 4.467.

[3] On 4 June 1940, Jules Verne and all the French submarines assigned to her departed Dundee and proceeded to Brest, France.

[1] At 18:30, Jules Verne and 13 submarines, including Amazone, got underway from Brest bound for Casablanca, French Morocco, which they reached on 23 June 1940.

On 3 July 1940, the British began Operation Catapult, which sought to seize or neutralize the ships of the French Navy to prevent their use by the Axis Powers.

[1] As of 23 October 1940, Amazone Antiope, Orphée, and Sibylle still constituted the 16th Submarine Division and were based in French Morocco.

[1] Operation Torch, the Allied amphibious landings in French Morocco and Algeria, began in the predawn hours of 8 November.

[1] Facing no counterattacks by U.S. forces, she returned to Casablanca, where she anchored in the outer harbor, then docked at the Delure pier to refuel.

[2] Amazone departed Bermuda on 12 February 1944 and headed for Key West, Florida, where she assumed duties with the U.S. Navy sound school there.

[2] She ran aground on 15 October 1944 inside Fort Pond Bay at Montauk, Long Island, New York.