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2020 News 

BSAM Rhône in the Saint Pierre and Miquelon Archipelago

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September 9, 2020 (Google Translation) – The Rhône metropolitan support and assistance building (BSAM) continued its “LANDSEER 20.2” deployment towards the French archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, where the patroller Fulmar is permanently based . Off Langlade (southern part of Miquelon), the two naval vessels seized the opportunity to train together. These included towing presentations, towing and an asymmetric threat defense exercise. In Miquelon, the Rhône also had the opportunity to achieve a rare anchorage, no military vessel having stopped there for 10 years. Docked in the port of…

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FS Fulmar Returns from Canadian Arctic Exercise

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August 19, 2020 (Google Translation) – Customary in cold waters, the Fulmar regularly deploys in the Far North, in cooperation with the allied navies of the region: the Danes in Greenland and the Canadians in Newfoundland and Labrador. This year, the Fulmar sailed along the coast of Greenland to 70 ° N to harden its newly embarked sailors. The objective was to develop their skills in sea rescue in the polar zone and to accustom them to the specificities of navigation in glacial zones, through exercises and international cooperation. The opportunity…

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Fulmar Patrols Saint-Pierre et Miquelon

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April 28, 2020 (Google Translation) – Based in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, the Fulmar and its eleven crew members are used to conducting missions in the sometimes difficult weather conditions of the Northwest Atlantic. In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, the isolation of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon was almost complete after the stopping of air and sea passenger connections with Canada, a compulsory step to trade with the metropolis. At the request of the prefecture of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, the commander of the Atlantic maritime area hired the patrol boat Fulmar as part of the…

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Fulmar Assists Fishing Vessel in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

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April 9, 2020 (Google Translation) – On April 7, 2020, in the middle of the night and while deployed on a maritime surveillance mission in the Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon archipelago, patrol boat Fulmar was alerted to the grounding of the fishing vessel Cap Jean , north of the port of Miquelon. The Fulmar and its 11 crew members immediately went to the rescue of the vessel in difficulty. Its commander then transferred to the ship to take charge of the local coordination of area operations, to which were added the lifeboat SNS…

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