Name Laplace Commissioned 5 October 1989 Construction started 1 September 1987 Length 59 m Draft 3.63 m | Laid down 1 September 1987 Status in active service Launched 9 November 1988 Weight 850 tons Beam 11 m | |
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Namesake Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace Class and type Lapérouse-class survey ship | ||
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.
In 2004, she took part in an anti-drug operation leading to the capture of 2 tonnes of cocaine.
In 2016, after the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804, Laplace was dispatched to search for the black boxes of the aircraft. She departed her base of Porto-Vecchio, in Corsica, on 27 May and arrived at the search area by 31 May. On 1 June Laplace detected a signal from one of the black box recorders.
References
French ship Laplace (A 793) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA