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Military


A603 Henri Poincaré

displacement 22,640-23,500 tons
Length 180 meters / 585 feet
width 22.20 meters
Draft 9.40-10,50 meters
Propulsion
  • 1 bow thruster 800kw
  • 2 steam turbines
  • 2 hot-oil heater
  • 1 propeller
  • Power 10000 hp
    speed 15 knots
    autonomy 24,000 miles @ 12 knots
    capacity of tanker boom (oil and diesel)
    Armament 2 x 12.7mm or 2 x 20 mm guns
    crew295 men, 25 OFF, OM 125, QMM 165, 15 civilian personnel
    tanker launched October 1960
    arrived in BREST 2 October 1963
    transformed 1964-1967
    accepted for active service 1 May 1968
    modernized 1978-1980
    based in BREST
    missions 150 missions
    traveled 525,000 miles
    Commissioned March 01, 1968 (France)
    Decommissioned July 28, 1992
    disarmed 1992 the profile of MONGE (end 1992)
    sold 07 October 1993 at the Marine Cie Damet Rotterdam
    left Brest 16 November 1993 to be demolished in Mumbai (INDIA