The Musée Naval Maillé-Brézé of Nantes !

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We have come quite often to Nantes, a City that needs to be visited more by all. A wonderful historical city with many monuments to see, many wonderful properties. I was again on my local road warrior mode and as bit not back, decided to give it a refresher to this must to visit City of Nantes, Loire-Atlantique dept 44 of the Pays de la Loire region,in my belle France ; even if old Bretagne! Do read my previous posts on the city as well, For now let me tell about the Musée Naval Maillé Brézé of Nantes ! Hope you enjoy the post as I.

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The Maillé-Brézé is a French Navy squadron escort of the T47 type, a surcouf class. It was baptized by the name of the famous sailor Jean Armand de Maillé, Marquis de Brézé. This is the third unit to wear this surname. Since 1988, it has been a museum ship accosted at the Quai de la Fosse du Port de Nantes, The Maillé-Brézé is first of all an anti-aircraft escorter, redesigned as an anti-sous-marin escorter. Put on hold in Lorient on October 9, 1953, and launched on July 2, 1955, it was admitted to active service on May 4, 1957. He is the seventh unit of a series of 18 squadron escorts, For ten years its missions led it to the Atlantic and the Mediterranean where it experienced an important activity. Between January 1967 and August 1968, it was resumed to be equipped with anti-submarine detection and control means including a towed sonar, characterized by his “fish”. Based in Brest, most of his mission was then supporting the strategic ocean force (FOST) , It was disarmed on April 1, 1988, with the Q661 hull number.

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In the Maillé-Brézé, the crew and the marine officers were housed in collective positions, seven for the crew and four for the marine officers, the latter being distributed by category: two for the upper marine officers (WHO) and two for the subordinate marine officers ( OM). The captain of arms is housed in one room with another WHO. Another room is attributed to two WHOs. The officers are housed in seven rooms for two. The second commander and the mechanic engineer have a single room. Two other individual rooms were planned for two senior officers: one for a division adjutant, if the building is a chief of division; the other for a possible superior authority accompanied by its chief of staff. The commander has an apartment combining his room and office with his square.

It was given to the Nantes Marine Tradition association on July 1,1988, which transformed it into a naval museum anchored on the Quai de la Fosse in Nantes. On board, you discover its complete equipment, such as boats and anchorage, detection equipment and armaments as well as life locations. Between May and June 2016, the ship is used as an element of decor by director Christopher Nolan during the filming of Dunkerque or Dunkirk, which is inspired by Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of British and French troops in Dunkirk from May 24 to June 4, 1940, during WWII.

The Nantes tourist office on the Musée Naval Maillé Brézé : https://www.levoyageanantes.fr/en/places/nantes-naval-museum/

The official Maillé-Brézé Naval museum : https://www.maillebreze.com/en

There you go folks, do visit Nantes,and its wonderful monuments.  A must to visit while in the city ; see the Musée Naval Maillé Brézé of Nantes ! Again, hope you enjoy this post as I.

And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!

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I am a lover of travels to Europe , Americas , Africa and Asia as well ,who like to share my experiences of the last 53 years with the world, visiting so far 81 countries; living in 6, working in 5, and Citizen of 4, speaking fluently 4 languages. I can deal with sports especially football/soccer and love music, arts, wine collector/drinker, and go out to restaurants, and just visit the world. My background comes all the way from Candelaria and Pajara in Tenerife, Spain where my grandparents came from ;not knowing each other then, to Punta Brava, west of Havana, Cuba. There , my parents born in Cuba met and later on I was born there too. 100% guanche (annexed Tenerife to Spain on April 10 ,1496). I left Cuba as many have to Madrid, Spain where I lived for 4 years. Then, move to Perth Amboy ,New Jersey USA (living there 13 yrs) ; where I completed high school, became a US Citizen, learned to drive a car, and learned English. Afterward, went to the university in Florida, ERAU, and upon graduation decided to moved there to Ormond by the Sea, near Daytona Beach, finally moving North Miami, then Hialeah, then another moved to Silver Lakes division in Miramar, Broward county, Florida; in Florida I lived a total of 18 years. Finally , moved to France in 2003 ,Versailles call me for its royalty, and working in Paris was great. It was time to seek frontiers again and moved to Brech near Auray, Morbihan in Brittany , and later move to not too far Pluvigner. Total so far in France has been 20 years, and counting. Moving average a home every 5.5 years hopefully this will be my last. Cheers All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of the copyright holder, me. No part of this work may be modified, without the written permission of the holder, me.No part of this work may be exposed to public view in any form or by any means, without identifying the holder as the author, and with the before mentioned permission.

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