French submarine Ouessant (S623)

Ouessant (S623) is an Agosta-class submarine built for the French Navy.

For other ships with the same name, see French submarine Ouessant.
Ouessant at Brest in 2005
History
France
NameOuessant
NamesakeUshant, an island in the English Channel
BuilderArsenal de Cherbourg
Launched23 October 1976
Decommissioned2001
FateTraining submarine, 2005–2009
StatusSubmarine museum, 2011-present
General characteristics
Class and typeAgosta-class submarine (Agosta 70A)
Displacement
  • 1,500 long tons (1,524 t) surfaced
  • 1,760 long tons (1,788 t) submerged
Length67 m (219 ft 10 in)
Beam6 m (19 ft 8 in)
Speed
  • 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) surfaced
  • 20.5 knots (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph) submerged
  • 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) submerged (snort)
Test depth300 m (984 ft 3 in)
Complement
  • 5 officers
  • 36 enlisted
Sensors and
processing systems
  • Thomson CSF DRUA 33 Radar
  • Thomson Sintra DSUV 22
  • DUUA 2D Sonar
  • DUUA 1D Sonar
  • DUUX 2 Sonar
  • DSUV 62A towed array
Armament
  • SM 39 Exocet
  • 4 × 550 mm bow torpedo tubes
  • ECAN L5 Mod 3 & ECAN Fl7 Mod 2 torpedoes

Construction and career
Submarine Museum, ex-Ouessant (S623)

She was completed at the Arsenal de Cherbourg in 1978 and served the French Navy until her 2001 decommissioning. From 2005 to 2009, Ouessant was employed as a training vessel to train Royal Malaysian Navy personnel who will operate the two French-built Scorpène-class submarines planned for the Royal Malaysian Navy. Despite official statements in 2009 that Ouessant had been sold to Malaysia,[1] the position remained unclear.[2] Because of Ouessant's role in the establishment of the Malaysian submarine forces, plans to return the vessel to Malaysia to serve as a museum ship were announced in July 2009.;[3] Ouessant was formally transferred to the Malaysian Government on 23 September 2011[4] to be transported to Klebang, Malacca to become a submarine museum.

See also

References
  1. "Ministry of Foreign Affairs".
  2. "So Who Owns The Ouessant Actually?". 31 January 2009.
  3. "Ouessant To Be A Museum In Malaysia?". 14 July 2009.
  4. "Transfer of submarine Ouessant".



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