French ship Laplace (A 793)
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Borda, sister-ship of Laplace
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| Name: | Laplace |
| Namesake: | Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace [1] |
| Laid down: | 1 September 1987 [1] |
| Launched: | 9 November 1988 [1] |
| Commissioned: | 5 October 1989 [1] |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2024[update] |
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| Class & type: | Lapérouse-class survey ship |
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| Length: | 59 m (193 ft 7 in) |
| Beam: | 10.9 m (35 ft 9 in) |
| Draught: | 3.63 m (11 ft 11 in) |
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| Range: | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 12 kn (14 mph; 22 km/h) |
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| Armament: | 2 × 12.7 mm machine guns |
Laplace is a Hydrographic survey ship of the French Navy, third of the Lapérouse-class survey ships.
Career
In 1999, Laplace surveyed the Persian Gulf, retrieving samples from the sea floor under 3000 metres of water.[2]
In 2004, she took part in an anti-drug operation leading to the capture of 2 tonnes of cocaine.[2]
In 2016, after the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804, Laplace was dispatched to search for the black boxes of the aircraft.[3][4] She departed her base of Porto-Vecchio, in Corsica, on 27 May and arrived at the search area by 31 May.[3] On 1 June Laplace detected a signal from one of the black box recorders.[5]
Notes, citations, and references
Notes
Citations
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Bâtiment hydrographique Laplace, netmarine.net
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Histoire et actualités du BH Laplace, netmarine.net
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