Gym grade

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Gymnote is the French name for a family of the New World knife fish . The "electric fish" were the namesake of two test submarines of the French Navy :

  • Gymnote (Q 1) : was one of the first electrically powered submarines in the world , alongside the Spanish Isaac Peral . It was launched in 1888 and struck off the register in 1908.
  • Gymnote (S 655) : was a diesel-electric powered experimental submarine armed with nuclear missiles that was used between 1966 and 1986.