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French frigate Floréal

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Name
  
Floréal

Ordered
  
1989

Commissioned
  
27 May 1992

Construction started
  
2 April 1990

Displacement
  
2.6 million kg

Namesake
  
Month of Floréal

Laid down
  
2 April 1990

Length
  
94 m

Launched
  
6 October 1990

Beam
  
14 m

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Homeport
  
Port des Galets, La Réunion

Floréal is a small monitoring frigate ("frégate de surveillance") of the French Marine Nationale. She is the lead ship of her class, and the first French vessel named after the 8th month of the Republican Calendar.

Service history

Floréal's mission is the monitoring of the Exclusive Economic Zone in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.

In 1993, she took part in United Nations Operation in Somalia II to protect Blue Helmets. In 1995, she took part in the capture of Bob Denard in the Comoros. She also took part in the Action of 9 April 2009.

References

French frigate Floréal Wikipedia


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