Abeille Flandre

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Career

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Commissioned:	1978
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General Characteristics
Displacement:	2220 tonnes
Length:	63.45 m
Beam:	14.74 m
Draught:	6.90 m
Propulsion:	4 Atlas-MaK K 8 M453 AK diesels, 4 x 2350 kW (12800 HP)
Speed:	17 knots
Range:
Complement:	10 men
Detection:	2 Racal Decca radars
Motto:

The Abeille Flandre is a high sea tug of the French Navy. She is the property of the private company Abeilles International, and operatedby the French Navy since December 1979.

The Abeille Flandre is based in Toulon. She takes orders from the préfet maritime.

Before Toulon, her home harbour was Brest, from where she helped secure traffic off Bretagne. She would be available in 20 minutes, and would sail whenever the wind would be over 25 knots in Ouessant.

She was replaced in April 2005 by the more powerful, 80-metre Abeille Bourbon.

The Abeille Flandre is famous and popular in France for her role after the sinkings of the Erika and the Ievoli Sun. Hervé Hamon wrote an hommage in his book L'Abeille d'Ouessant.