French submarine Ouessant (S623)

Ouessant at Brest in 2005
History
France
Name	Ouessant
Builder	Arsenal de Cherbourg
Launched	1978
Decommissioned	2001
Fate	Training submarine, 2005–2009
Status	Submarine museum, 2011-present
General characteristics
Class and type	Agosta-class submarine (Agosta 70A)
Displacement	1,500 long tons (1,524 t) surfaced 1,760 long tons (1,788 t) submerged
Length	67 m (219 ft 10 in)
Beam	6 m (19 ft 8 in)
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) surfaced 20.5 knots (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph) submerged 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) submerged (snort)
Test depth	300 m (984 ft 3 in)
Complement	5 officers 36 enlisted
Sensors and processing systems	Thomson CSF DRUA 33 Radar Thomson Sintra DSUV 22 DUUA 2D Sonar DUUA 1D Sonar DUUX 2 Sonar DSUV 62A towed array
Armament	SM 39 Exocet 4 × 550 mm bow torpedo tubes ECAN L5 Mod 3 & ECAN Fl7 Mod 2 torpedoes

Ouessant (S623) is an Agosta-class submarine built for the French Navy.

Construction and career[]

She was completed at the Arsenal de Cherbourg in 1978 and served the French Navy until her 2001 decommissioning. From 2005 to 2009, Ouessant was employed as a training vessel to train Royal Malaysian Navy personnel who will operate the two French-built Scorpène-class submarines planned for the Royal Malaysian Navy. Despite official statements in 2009 that Ouessant had been sold to Malaysia,^[1] the position remained unclear.^[2] Because of Ouessant's role in the establishment of the Malaysian submarine forces, plans to return the vessel to Malaysia to serve as a museum ship were announced in July 2009.;^[3] Ouessant was formally transferred to the Malaysian Government on 23 September 2011^[4] to be transported to Klebang, Malacca to become a submarine museum.

See also[]

• List of submarines of France

References[]

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