FS Courbet F-712 Frigate French Navy Marine Nationale

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F 712 FS Courbet

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Type, class: La Fayette class Frigate (Frégate Légère Furtive)
Builder: DCN, Lorient, Brittany, France

STATUS:
Laid down: September 15, 1993
Launched: March 12, 1994
Commissioned: April 1, 1997
IN SERVICE

Homeport: Toulon
Namesake: Anatole-Amédée-Prosper Courbet 1827-1885)
Technical Data: see INFO > La Fayette class Frigate

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FS Courbet (F 712):

The Courbet frigate made its long-term crossing from November 4, 1996 to March 28, 1997, the date of its admission to active service in Toulon.

Departing from Lorient, the Courbet will successively stop at Port-Said, Djibouti, Singapore, Inchon, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Manila in the company of the ships Jeanne d'Arc, Germinal and Nivose, then Penang, Djibouti, Lorient, before arriving Toulon.

From May 26, 1997 to August 31, the ship carried out a presence mission in the Atlantic, North Sea and Baltic, then from November 25 to January 16, 1998, the mission Corymbe 36. The frigate then headed for the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, before returning to Toulon on April 30, 1998.

On February 1, 1999, the Courbet left Toulon for the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf, took part in the exercise "Arabian Gauntlet 99" from March 10 to 12. Back in Toulon on May 16, the frigate took part in the exercise "Pean 99" from October 4 to 29, with the aircraft carrier Foch, the Frigates Jean Bart and De Grasse, and the ships Somme, Jules Verne and Saphir.

In 2000, the Courbet carried out a new mission in the Indian Ocean from January 3 to April 5, then in the Black Sea in June, before joining the Atlantic for a Franco-Moroccan exercise "Chebec 2000".

Courbet was engaged in operation "Herakles" from September 17 in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. The frigate is tasked with escorting US support ships. She then participated from November 8 to 10 in the Franco-Indian exercise "Varuna", then after a stopover in Bombay, Muscat, Djibouti, she returned to Toulon at the end of December.

From May 2002, the Courbet participated in several exercises and operations in the Mediterranean, bearing the names of "Pangolin", "Amarante", "Cooperative Partner 02", "Breeze 2002", "Cléopatra", "Abelia", then "Pean" from November 12 to 22 with the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle.

Courbet took part in Operation Baliste. On 3 October 2006, an Israeli fighter penetrated her 2-nautical-mile (4 km) defence perimeter without responding to radio calls, triggering a diplomatic incident. Israel apologised after official protests from the French government. Throughout September the ship was involved in anti-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia, helping to recapture a yacht taken by pirates on September 2.

At the end of 2008, the frigate Courbet was one of the ships involved in supporting merchant ships transiting the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea faced with the resurgence of piracy from Somalia.

In December 2009 Courbet escorted the Marine Nationale cruiser Jeanne d'Arc on her final voyage. This was last trip of the famous helicopter carrier that served as a floating embassy and symbol of the French navy for 46 years. Jeanne d'Arc's last voyage in company with Courbet included visits to Africa, South America including Rio to Buenos Aires, the French Antilles, the United States of America including New York City, and Canada. The voyage was completed sometime in May 2010.

Courbet was involved in Operation Harmattan aimed at enforcing United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 during the Libyan civil war. On the night of April 28 to 29, 2011, it attacked with 100 mm guns the speedboats which were mining the port of Misrata, routing them and sinking one of them. On the night of May 8 to 9, it fired a hundred shells at Libyan positions on the ground. On May 12, she supported the Canadian frigate Charlottetown and the British destroyer HMS Liverpool which attacked the fast boats of the pro-Gaddafi naval forces which intended to attack the port of Misrata.

In July 2014, the frigate Courbet participated with the frigate Montcalm in the evacuation from Libya of French nationals and other nationalities.

In October 2015, the frigate picked up migrants as part of Operation EUNAVFOR Med.

In February 2017, the frigate escorted the BPC Mistral during the Jeanne d'Arc 2017 mission.

After a four-month deployment in the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf, the Courbet is implementing its major technical stop scheduled from February to May 2019 in Toulon on the Chantiers de l'Atlantique site. During its redeployment as part of Task Force 150, the Courbet made significant seizures of cannabis resin - 3.5 tons on December 13, 2019, then 1.5 tons on January 8, 2020 - transported on board dhows in the Gulf of Oman.

source: wikipedia (machine translated)

Anatole-Amédée-Prosper Courbet (26 June 1827 - 11 June 1885)

... was a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin Campaign (1883 - 86) and the Sino-French War (August 1884 - April 1885).

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