French aircraft carrier Clemenceau (R98)
- Q790
- 8 × Sk 10.0 cm L/55
- 2 × SACP -SAM (52 cells)
- 5 × 12.7 mm MG
- 35 aircraft
- 4 helicopters
- DRBV -23B - air surveillance radar
- DRBV -50 surface search radar (later replaced by: DRBV -15)
- NRBA -50 radar approach control
- DRBI -10 ( three-dimensional air surveillance radar)
- Several DRBC -31- Feuerleitradargeräte (later replaced by: DRBC - 32C)
- DRBN -34 navigation radars
The Clemenceau (code: R98 ) was a light aircraft carrier of the French Navy. She was the eighth carrier ship and was like her sister ship, the Foch, conventionally driven. Together they formed from the 1960s to the 1990s, the backbone of the French Navy. She was for a battleship of the Richelieu - Class is the second warship named after Georges Clemenceau. The keel-laying of this first Clemenceau had taken place in 1939, the ship had been completed but no more.
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The Clemenceau was involved, among others, the following operations:
Decommissioning and dismantling
The Clemenceau was made on 1 October 1997 decommissioned and sold for scrapping in 2003. An initiative of four environmental organizations, including Greenpeace, however, delayed by an action of the transfer to the ship junkyard abroad, because on board the ship toxic substances such as mercury, lead and more than 100 tons of carcinogenic asbestos should be located, their environmentally sound disposal at that time planned Verschrottungsort is not guaranteed in Turkey. According to official figures should only be around 45 tonnes of asbestos on board his. The French court finally declared it had no jurisdiction, since we are dealing with a military matter. Then Greenpeace stepped up its international campaign. Some activists briefly occupied the ship.
Greenpeace appealed to the Basel Convention against toxic waste exports and also wanted to draw attention to the working conditions at Alang in India, where the Clemenceau should now be scrapped, attentive.
December 31, 2005 left the ship, now called Q790, in tow of a Russian tractor the port of Toulon with course India. The passage of the towing unit through the Suez Canal came about only after a large cash payment from France to Egypt because the Egyptian government initially refused passage because of environmental concerns. After the Supreme Court of India had refused on 13 February 2006 the ship was now in the Indian Ocean due to unclear risk position of Health and Environment to enter Indian territorial waters, even the French Council of State provisionally banned its scrapping. On February 15, President Jacques Chirac ordered the return of the Clemenceau to France. The ship arrived in Brest on May 15. A new survey should now clarify the toxins in what quantities are available on board.
In July 2008 it was confirmed that the Clemenceau in Hartlepool English is to be scrapped, where she arrived on 8 February 2009. By January 2010, the ship was completely wrecked.
Schematic representation of
Dassault Super Étendard
100 mm artillery