| Dupuy de Lôme, building number 816, launched |
On Saturday 27 March, Thales and CNN launched the French signals intelligence vessel Dupuy de Lôme at the Delfzijl shipyard 'Royal' Niestern Sander in the Netherlands. The vessel comes under the MINREM joint forces electronic intelligence programme.
  On Saturday 27th March 2004 the building number 816 of Royal Niestern Sander was christened and launched. This date forms a milestone for this very special project of the shipyard 'Royal' Niestern Sander.  It is the first time in the 100 years existence of the shipyard that a vessel has been build for an end user as the French Navy.During this summer the vessel will be delivered to the client being CNN (Compagnie Nationale de Navigation) in Paris. Together with their partner THALES CNN will equip the vessel furthermore in France for their specific tasks as a research vessel, after what the vessel will be delivered to the French Navy. This project is for Royal Niestern Sander the most complex project in 100 years of existence, even if bigger vessels were regularly build during the last years. The vessel has been build completely on the shipyard of Farmsum with the help of regional subcontractors and furnishers. The vessel has been named after Henri Dupuy de Lôme, a 19th century naval architect of the French Marine. The traditional transverse launching was preceded by the christening by Ms Lamoulen, the wife of a director of the French Ministry of Defense. The heavy weight and the slender hullform made of the transverse launching a spectacular happening which for a very long time will not be forgotten by all invited French guests. This project proves that the Netherland's shipbuilding industry is still full of life and most concurrential on the international market. Following orders are however based on hulls build elsewhere.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Related news items
- Big Business in small ships -24/10/2007
- Exporting Europe's Experience -07/10/2006
- Royal Niestern Sander -05/11/2005
- Dutch yards seek external partnerships -07/07/2005
- Conoship developing new shipbuilding concepts -07/07/2005
- Lloyds List; Tuesday June 22: Wagenborg orders 'maid of all works' -07/07/2005
- Conoship - flying the flag for Dutch shipbuilders - Paul Van Dyck, The MotorShip -07/07/2005