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Laplace is a hydrographic survey ship of the French Navy, third of the Lapérouse-class survey ships.
French Ship Laplace | |
History | |
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France | |
Name | Laplace |
Namesake | Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace[1] |
Laid down | 1 September 1987 [1] |
Launched | 9 November 1988 [1] |
Commissioned | 5 October 1989 [1] |
Identification | MMSI number: 228798000 |
Status | in active service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Lapérouse-class survey ship |
Displacement |
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Length | 59 m (193 ft 7 in) |
Beam | 10.9 m (35 ft 9 in) |
Draught | 3.63 m (11 ft 11 in) |
Propulsion |
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Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 12 kn (14 mph; 22 km/h) |
Complement |
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Armament | 2 × 12.7 mm machine guns |
In 1999, Laplace surveyed the Persian Gulf, retrieving samples from the sea floor under 3000 metres of water.[2]
In 2004, she took part in an anti-drug operation leading to the capture of 2 tonnes of cocaine.[2]
In 2016, after the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804, Laplace was dispatched to search for the black boxes of the aircraft.[3][4] She departed her base of Porto-Vecchio, in Corsica, on 27 May and arrived at the search area by 31 May.[3] On 1 June Laplace detected a signal from one of the black box recorders.[5]
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