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FS Clemenceau)
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| Career |
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| Ordered: |
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| Laid down: |
Novembre 1955 |
| Launched: |
21st of Decembre 1957 |
| Commissioned: |
22nd Novembre 1961 |
| Decommissioned: |
1st of Octobre 1997 |
| Fate: |
scrapped |
| Struck: |
14th of April 2003 |
| General Characteristics |
| Displacement: |
24200 tonnes (32500 full load) |
| Length: |
265 m |
| Width: |
51,20 m |
| Beam: |
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| Draught: |
8,60m |
| Propulsion: |
6 Indret boilers, 4 steam turbins producing 126 000 HP, 2 propellers |
| Speed: |
32 knots |
| Range: |
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| Complement: |
1338 men, including 64 officers (1920 men including the air group). 984 men if only helicopters are carried. |
| Armament: |
8 x 100mm turrets (originally) ; in the 90s, 4 are replaced by 2 SACP Crotale EDIR systems, with 52 missiles; 5 x12,7mm machine guns.
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| Electronics: |
*1 x DRBV-23B air sentry radar
- 1 x DRBV-50 lox-altitude or surface sentry radar (later replaced by a DRBV-15)
- 1 x NRBA-50 approach radar
- 1 x DRBI-10 tri-dimensional air sentry radar
- several DRBC-31 fire radar (later DRBC-32C)
- DRBN-34 navigation radars
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| Planes |
about 40 aircrafts :
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| Motto: |
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The Clémenceau (R98), often affectionately called "le Clém'", was the 8th aircraft carrier of the French Navy. From the 60s to the 90s, she was the backbone of the French Navy, along with her sister-ship, the Foch. During her career, she sailed more than a million nautiical miles in 3125 days at sea, on all the seas of the world. She was the second French warship to be named after Georges Clémenceau, the first one being a battleship of the Richelieu class, laid down in 1939 and never finished.
Her main missions include
- 1974-1975 : Independence of Djibouti, in the Indian Ocean
- 1982-1984 : Civil war in Lebanon.
- 1987-1988 : Iran-Iraq war
- 1990 : First Gulf war
- 1993-1996 : War in Yugoslavia
Trivia
- The song Les trois matelots, by Renaud, makes numerous allusions to the Clémenceau.
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View of the Clémenceau where the command tower and the main guns are clearly visible.
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A Super-Etendard ready for launching of the flying deck of the FS Clémenceau (16th of July 1997)
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Super Etendards on the flying deck of the Clémenceau aircraft carrier
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Last updated: 10-29-2005 02:13:46
