kenavo – After missions carried out in the four corners of the world, the frigate Georges Leygues was retired in the harbor of Brest, which it will leave to be deconstructed
A gentle awakening. After a ten-year retirement spent protecting the small port of the Lanvéoc naval school from the swell, the former frigate Georges-Leygues has set sail again. This Friday, she took a final trip on the turbulent waters of the Atlantic, after a decade of inactivity. Deprived of her engines, the former French Navy ship left the harbor of Brest and Finistère for a final sea trip. Pushed by powerful tugs, the gray carcass set sail for Bordeaux to join the Bassens naval center, where she will be dismantled and recycled. The end point of a long career that will have lasted nearly forty years in the service of the French army.
It has been used as a breakwater since November 3, 2014. Almost ten years have passed moored a few meters from the Crozon peninsula. Placed across, next to the silhouettes of the Tourville and the De Grasse, the Georges-Leygues protected the sailors of the naval school from strong swells. A therapeutic part-time that ended on Friday. Built in Brest, the frigate was commissioned in 1979 and was attached to the port of Toulon (Var). But the ship specialized in anti-submarine warfare has sailed on all seas. It was no(…) - 20minutes
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