Foch (R 99)
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Ordered: | 1955 |
Laid down: | 15 November 1957 |
Launched: | 23 July 1960 |
Commissioned: | 15 July 1963 |
Decommissioned: | 15 November 2000 |
Fate: | Sold to the Brazilian Navy, re-named São Paulo. |
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General Characteristics | |
Displacement: | 24200 tonnes (32800 full load) |
Length: | 265 m |
Width: | 51,20 m |
Beam: | |
Draught: | 8,60 m |
Propulsion: | 6 Indret boilers, 4 steam turbines producing 126 000 hp, 2 propellers |
Speed: | 32 knots |
Range: | 7 500 mn in 18 knots |
Complement: | 1338 men, including 64 officers (1920 men including the air group). 984 men if only helicopters are carried. |
Armament: | 8 × 100 mm turrets (originally) ; in the 90s, 4 are replaced by 2 SACP Crotale EDIR systems, with 52 missiles; 5 × 12.7 mm machine guns. |
Electronics: | Radars
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Planes | about 40 aircraft:
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Motto: |
Foch (R 99) was the sister-ship of Clemenceau. She was the second warship named in honour of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, after a heavy cruiser commissioned in 1932, and scuttled in Toulon on November 27, 1942.
After a 37-year career in the French navy, on November 15, 2000, she was sold to the Brazilian Navy, and renamed São Paulo. As of 2006, she is still in service. In the French Navy, she was succeeded by Charles De Gaulle (R 91).
[edit] Popular culture
Foch was featured as fighting in the Battle of the Atlantic in Tom Clancy's 1986 novel, Red Storm Rising, which detailed a conventionally-fought Third World War between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. In this book, the ship was destroyed and is reported to have at least 40 F-8E(FN) Crusader fighters on board.
Foch was also featured in the 1995 film Crimson Tide.
[edit] See also
- List of aircraft carriers
- List of ship launches in 1960
- List of ship commissionings in 1963
- List of ship decommissionings in 2000
[edit] External links
- (French) CV Foch Aircraft Carrier Foch on Alabordache
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