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Mediterranean Port Of Toulon News

15 Jun 2020

Fire Breaks Out Aboard French Nuclear Submarine

(Photo: Maritime Prefecture of the Mediterranean)

Fire broke out onboard a nuclear submarine docked at the Mediterranean port of Toulon on Friday and was still raging but under control by afternoon, local officials said.Nobody was hurt and no nuclear materials or weapons were on board the vessel, the Perle, which is in dry dock for repairs, the prefecture said in a statement.“The fire is under control. It will not spread, but it has not yet been put out,” a spokeswoman for the Mediterranean prefecture told Reuters.The prefecture also said that smoke coming from the Perle was not radioactive.Dozens of firefighters were on the scene…

05 Oct 2000

French Carrier De Gaulle Docks At Port Of Toulon

France's nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle docked for the first time at its permanent base, the Mediterranean port of Toulon, on Wednesday. Three navy frigates and hundreds of yachts escorted the 42,000-ton vessel into port as it joined the rest of the French fleet. The Charles de Gaulle, which has 200 women among its 2,000 crew, is to leave in three weeks on its first long cruise. Carrying up to 40 planes, it replaces France's last surviving aircraft carrier, the 41-year-old Foch, which has been sold to Brazil. The Charles de Gaulle had left this past Saturday the port of Brest - where it was built over 13 years. France is expected to decide before the end of the year whether to build a sister ship to the Charles de Gaulle.

23 Jan 2006

Controversy Creates Concern for Shipbreaking

A court-appointed panel has questioned French officials and environmental activists over the amount of toxic chemicals in the decommissioned Clemenceau, whose planned scrapping here raised strenuous objections from green groups. The Supreme Court Monitoring Committee has ordered the Clemenceau -- the former pride of the French navy -- to stay out of India's exclusive economic zone until the final report is ready. The committee chairman, G. Thyagarajan, said the body would present its final recommendations to a bench of the Supreme Court by February 13. Thyagarajan said his team was examining whether the Clemenceau, which left the Mediterranean port of Toulon on December 31…