Émeraude (S604)

Émeraude (S604)
General data
Ship type :	Submarine ( SSN )
Ship class :	Rubis class
Navy :	French Navy
Keel laying :	October 1982
Launch :	April 12, 1985
Commissioning:	September 15, 1988
Builder :	DCN ( Cherbourg )
Home port :	Toulon
Whereabouts:	On active duty
Technical specifications (see Rubis class )

The Émeraude (S604) is a tactical nuclear submarine of the French Navy . The name goes back to an unfinished submarine class from the late 1930s and a submarine class from the First World War and translated means emerald . The Émeraude (S 604) is the third submarine in the Rubis class .

On March 30, 1994, during a submarine hunt exercise, there was an explosion in the engine room of the Émeraude , in which 10 crew members died.

The nuclear submarine was modernized between May 1994 and December 1995 to the technical standard of the Améthyste class .

In June 2009, the Émeraude was sent to the Atlantic off the Brazilian coast to use its sonar equipment to locate the flight recorder of Air France Flight 447 .

See also

• Émeraude (ship name) - other ships with the name Émeraude
• List of submarine accidents since 1945

literature

• Chris Chant: Modern submarines technology-tactics-armament , Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 1st edition 2005, ISBN 3-7276-7150-5
• Robert Hutchinson: KAMPF UNDER WASSER - Submarines from 1776 to today , Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 1st edition 2006, ISBN 3-613-02585-X
• Werner Globke (ed.): Weyers Flottentaschenbuch / Warships of the World - Fleet Handbook , Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn, 66th year 2005-2007, ISBN 3-7637-4517-3

Web links

Commons : Émeraude (S 604)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rubis class at naval-technology.com ( engl. )
• Message about the explosion in 1994 (Engl.)