Name Ventôse Ordered 1989 Commissioned 5 May 1993 Launched 14 March 1992 Displacement 2.6 million kg Builder Chantiers de l'Atlantique | Namesake Month of Ventôse Laid down 28 June 1991 Construction started 28 June 1991 Length 94 m Beam 14 m | |
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Homeport Fort de France, Martinique | ||
Ventôse is a light monitoring frigate ("frégate de surveillance") of the French Marine Nationale. She is the fourth ship of her class, and the first French vessel named after Ventôse, the 5th month of the Republican Calendar. She deployed as part of the French response to Hurricane Katrina.
Ventôse took part in the recovery operation for the Air France Flight 447 which crashed some 960 kilometres (600 mi) off the northeast coast of Brazil on 1 June 2009.
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