Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer
The Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer ( SNSM ) is a French sea rescue organization founded in 1967 by the merger of the Société Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufragés (founded in 1865) and the Hospitaliers Sauveteurs Bretons (founded in 1873). Your mission is to save life at sea in French waters, including the overseas departments and territories .
The organization is financed, among other things, by grants from the French government, the regions, the departments and the municipalities.
Many comparable organizations, on the other hand, are fully financed by private donations, for example the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (Great Britain and Ireland), the Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij (Netherlands) and the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People .
On June 7, 2019, three members of the crew of the lifeboat SNS 061 died in a capsize operation near Les Sables-d'Olonne .
See also
Web links
- Official website (French)
Footnotes
- ↑ https://www.snsm.org/page/histoire-de-la-snsm
- ↑ Boat capsized: three sea rescuers die in a storm on the French Atlantic coast . In: Spiegel Online . June 7, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed June 18, 2019]).