FS JULES VERNE A620 at Ghent/ Galloo scrap yard 1st Sept 2016
Intended build as French Navy ammunition transport and converted to repair ship at keel laying; Launched 1970 at Brest
Decommissioned 17/9/2010
Displacement 10250 tonnes fully loaded
Length 151, beam 22 m
2 Pielstick 12PC2V400 engines, singlre shaft 12,000 shp (8,900 kW); 19 kts
Fitted with a complete 240-m2 hospital including an operating theatre, a recompression chamber and 16 beds.