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    submarine base of Saint-Nazaire Roof of the base and radome The Espadon as a museum ship Wikimedia Commons has media related to Base sous-marine de Saint-Nazaire...
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    patrimoine.region-bretagne.fr Base Mérimée: Base sous-marine de Keroman, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) Lorient U-boat base at uboat.net ...
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    Submarine pen (redirect from U-boat base)
    La Pallice (Base sous-marine de La Rochelle [fr]); it was started in April 1941. Similar building techniques to those used in St. Nazaire were employed...
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  • Thumbnail for French submarine Sirène (Q123)
    manned by crews of 41 men. Laid down at Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire in Saint-Nazaire, France, on 28 November 1923 with the pennant number Q123, Sirène...
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    Vulcano". Le Tribune. "Saint-Nazaire. La ministre Florence Parly aux Chantiers de l'Atlantique". "Saint-Nazaire. Chantiers de l'Atlantique : le navire...
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    France. In the 1680s, Fort Lupin was constructed near Saint-Nazaire-sur-Charente. Fontaine de Lupin (Lupin "fountain"): This building, set in the bed...
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  • Thumbnail for French submarine Galatée (Q132)
    Ordered on 30 June 1922 and Laid down at Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire in Saint-Nazaire, France, on 1 February 1924 with the pennant number Q132, Galatée...
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    SS France (1960) (category Ships built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique)
    French Line) ocean liner, constructed by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard at Saint-Nazaire, France, and put into service in February 1962. At the...
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    royal fleet of 35 ships under Charles, Duke of Guise, in front of Saint-Martin-de-Ré, but was defeated on 27 October 1622, leading to the signing of...
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  • Thumbnail for French submarine Le Conquérant (Q171)
    3 km/h; 5.8 mph). Laid down at Ateliers et Chantiers de Saint-Nazaire Penhoët in Saint-Nazaire, France, on 16 August 1930 with the hull number Q171,...
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    "fortresses" in ports along the Atlantic coast like La Rochelle and Saint-Nazaire until the German capitulation in May 1945. Also in September 1944, the...
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    "refuge, defence and supply" for the French Navy. The Arsenal de Rochefort served as a naval base and dockyard until it closed in 1926. In September 1757,...
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    House of Rohan (redirect from De Rohan)
    Goëlo, Viscount of Saint-Nazaire, Baron of Avaugour and Ingrandes, Lord of Clisson, Champtoceaux and Montfaucon, and Catherine Fouquet de La Varenne (1590-10/05/1670)...
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    La base de sous-marins de Lorient-Kéroman (1940-1997). Éditions du Quantième. ISBN 978-2-9511948-1-6. Luc Braeuer (2008). La base de sous-marins de Lorient...
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    was ordered from Ateliers et Chantiers de Saint-Nazaire Penhoët and was launched at their shipyard in Saint-Nazaire on 10 October 1908. She was completed...
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    Hénin-Beaumont (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    Studies. 28 December 2023. INSEE commune file Base Mérimée: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) "National Front in...
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  • Thumbnail for French submarine Achéron
    knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph). Laid down at Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire in Saint-Nazaire, France, on 4 or 24 September 1927 with the hull number Q150...
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    Boulogne-sur-Mer (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    Boulogne-Ville was the terminus of the Chemin de fer de Boulogne à Bonningues (CF de BB), which extended their line from Saint-Martin-Boulogne on 12 May 1902. Within...
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    Sous-marins français 1918–1945 (in French). Rennes: Marines Éditions. ISBN 9782915379075. Le Conte, Pierre (1936). Sous-marin "Sfax" (Saint-Nazaire)...
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    Calais (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    Racing Union Football Club: Clap de Fin Pour Une Étoile Filante di Football". Retrieved 26 May 2018. Journal de la marine marchande. January 1971. Retrieved...
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    total strength of the French in the barrage of Bourg-Saint-Maurice, part of the sub-sector (sous-secteur) of Tarentaise, was 3,000 men, 350 machine guns...
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    Cointet. Dictionnaire historique de la France sous l'Occupation (2nd ed. 2000) 732pp Michèle Cointet. L'Eglise sous Vichy. 1940–1945. La repentance en...
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    varies between 106–191 metres (348–627 ft). The granitic base, cut by the Rhône in the Saint-Vallier/Tain-l'Hermitage pass, is covered by 4,000 metres...
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    in the French Military Review Etienne, Delphine. SOUS-SÉRIE GR Y D OFFICIERS GÉNÉRAUX DE L'ARMÉE DE TERRE ET DES SERVICES (ANCIEN RÉGIME-2010) (PDF)....
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    World War II casualties (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Europe Since 1939, Geneva 1951. pp. 60–65 "Seconde Guerre mondiale: tombés sous les bombes "amies"". LExpress.fr. June 6, 2014. France Ministry of Defense...
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  • Thumbnail for French submarine Actéon
    knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph). Laid down at Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire in Saint-Nazaire, France, on 20 July 1927 with the hull number Q149, Actéon was...
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  • of the mission was to establish a secure base on the Breton Peninsula, near Saint-Brieuc in Duault. Their base was heavily attacked by German troops on...
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    Royal Engineers (category Organisations based in Kent)
    Africa Thomas Frank Durrant, 1942, St. Nazaire, France Howard Craufurd Elphinstone, 1855, Sevastopol, Crimea George de Cardonnel Elmsall Findlay, 1918, Catillon...
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    October 2016. See online Archived 2 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine Base Joconde: Marine à Berck, French Ministry of Culture. (in French) Ariel, London 1965...
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    Le Touquet (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    [établie sous la direction de César-François Cassini de Thury]". Gallica. Retrieved 12 April 2023. Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas (1764). "Carte des entrées de la...
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