According to France's Defence Minister Florence Parly, a naval mission to locate and recover a French submarine that was lost without a trace has located the vessel, APA reports citing Sputnik.
On 27 January 1968, during the exercises of the French fleet, the French submarine “La Minerve” disappeared in the Mediterranean with 52 people on board.
"It's a success, a relief, and a technical feat," Parly wrote on Twitter.
A special autonomous underwater vessel belonging to the French Institute for the Exploration and Exploitation of the Sea (Infremer) was used to search for the submarine.
The submarine was lost near the French port of Toulon off France's southern coast.
The French submarine "La Minerve" (S647) was a diesel-electric submarine and belonged to the Daphné class. In total, there were 9 such boats in the French Navy. The last of them was decommissioned in 1990. The length of the hull at the waterline was 58 meters and the vessel was 7 meters long. It had an underwater displacement of 1,045 tonnes and could travel at a speed of 16 knots underwater.
The boat had a range of almost 9 thousand km and a high margin of safety.
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