P-680 FS Sterne Patrol Vessel French Navy Marine Nationale

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P 680 FS Sterne

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Type, class: Sterne class Patrol Vessel / unique unit
Builder: Chantiers et ateliers de la Perrière, Lorient, France

STATUS:
Laid down: January 4, 1979
Launched: October 31, 1979
Commissioned: October 25, 1980
Decommissioned: July 16, 2009
Fate: training platform in Brest 2009-2020 / then laid up at Landevennec / finally scrapped

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In 29 years of service the ship have traveled 557,224 nautical miles, diverted 136 offending fishermen or polluters, and provided assistance to 75 ships in distress.

Sterne was handed over to the Naval Training Center (Centre d'Instruction Naval / CIN), Brest and was in use as a static educational platform 2009-2020.
Disarmed, she was moved in June 2020 to the Landévennec ship cemetery pending its dismantling.
Finally scrapped in Le Havre.

Sterne = Tern (bird)

Displacement: 350 tons (full load)
Length: 49 meters (160 feet 9 inches)
Beam: 7.5 meters (24 ft 7 in)
Draft: 2.8 meters (9 ft 2 in)
Speed: 17 knots (31 km/h)
Range: 4900 NMI (9000 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement: 19

Propulsion:
2 x SACM-Wartilä UD 33 V12 MS diesel engines (3089 kW / 4200 hp)
2 shafts / 2 propellers

Armament:
2 x 12.7 mm machine guns

Aviation:
none

Systems:
navigation radar
Inmarsat-M

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