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SOCARENAM Shipyard Selected to Deliver 6 French Navy OPVs for Overseas Territories
French President Emmanuel Macron announced today a procurement order of 6 new patrol vessels to be based overseas, a program known as POM in French (for patrouilleurs outre-mer).
Xavier Vavasseur 03 Dec 2019
French weekly magazine Le Marin reports that the procurement order was awarded to French shipyard SOCARENAM.
The offshore patrol vessels (OPV) are set to be delivered to the French Navy (Marine Nationale) between 2022 and 2025.
The new POM vessels will be based in:
– 2 ships in New Caledonia at Nouméa naval base (Pacific fleet). Two POM vessel are set to replace the P400 type patrol vessels La Moqueuse and La Glorieuse.
– 2 ships in La Reunion Island at Port Réunion naval base (Indian Ocean fleet), to replace the patrol vessel “Le Malin” (hull number P701) and a P400 vessel already decommissioned . “Le Malin” was actually a longline fishing boat seized in 2004 by the French Navy following illicit fishing off Kerguelen Islands. From 2007 the boat served as a diver support vessel in Toulon before being finally turned into an OPV in 2011. The vessel then joined the Indian Ocean fleet.
– 1 ship in French Polynesia at Fare Ute Papeete (Tahiti) naval base (Pacific fleet), to replace the Lapérouse-class patrol vessel Arago (hull number P675) and P400 type patrol vessel La Railleuse
– 1 ship to be based at a yet to be determined location
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