Pearl (S606)

Pearl (S606)
General data
Ship type :	Submarine ( SSN )
Ship class :	Rubis class
Navy :	French Navy
Keel laying :	March 22, 1987
Launch :	September 22, 1990
Commissioning:	July 7, 1993
Builder :	DCN ( Cherbourg )
Home port :	Toulon
Whereabouts:	On active duty
Technical specifications (see Rubis class )

The Pearl (S606) is a tactical nuclear submarine for the French Navy . The name goes back to a sapphire class submarine used in World War II and means pearl . Perle (S606) is the sixth and last built submarine of the Rubis class .

Together with the Améthyste (S605) , the submarine was a further development of the Rubis class and is therefore referred to in various sources as the Améthyste class .

On June 12, 2020, a fire broke out on board during an overhaul in a dry dock in Toulon . No radioactive material is said to have leaked and nobody was injured.

Web links

Commons : Perle (S 606)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Rubis class at naval-technology.com ( engl. )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fire extinguished on a French nuclear submarine after 14 hours

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