French aircraft carrier Clemenceau
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Clemenceau was the French Navy's sixth aircraft carrier and the lead ship of her class. The carrier served from 1961 to 1997 and was dismantled and recycled in 2009. The carrier was the second French warship to be named after Georges Clemenceau, the first being a Richelieu-class battleship laid down in 1939 but never finished.
Clemenceau under way in 1981
Clemenceau arrives in Brest at the end of her final cruise in 1997
Clemenceau in Brest in 2008 prior to being taken for disposal
1 : 100mm cannon ; 2 : Weapons control radar type DRBC-31 ; 3 : Aircraft lift ; 4 : 15 tonne crane ; 5 : Aircraft approach radar type NRBA-50 ; 6 : Altitude radar type DRBI-10 ; 7 : Funnel ; 8 : Proximity radar type DRBV-20 ; 9 : TACAN Antenna; 10 : Combined low altitude and surface-to-air radar type DRBV-50 ; 11 : Proximity radar type DRBV-23 ; 12 : Altitude radar type DRBI-10 ; 13 : Weapons control radar type DRBC-31
French aircraft carrier Foch
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Foch was the second Clemenceau-class aircraft carrier that served with the French Navy from 1963 to 2000. The carrier was the second warship named in honour of the Marshal of France, British Field Marshal and Marshal of Poland Ferdinand Foch.
A port quarter view of Foch underway during exercise Dragon Hammer '92
Six Aéronavale Dassault Super Étendard and two Étendard IVM (foreground) fighters aboard Foch off the coast of Lebanon, in 1983.
Meuse refueling Foch
São Paulo, ex-Foch