January 31, 2020 (Google Translation) – On January 23, 2020, Admiral Christophe Prazuck, Chief of the Naval Staff, admitted to active service the third Patrolman Antilles Guyana (PAG), La Combattante.
During its long-term deployment (DLD ), La Combattante has proven its resilience and its ability to meet environmental, human and material challenges such as those raised by the climatic disasters that have hit the West Indies in recent years.
Long of 60 meters, the PAG are modern units, adapted to the nautical, climatic and operational particularities of the Caribbean arc. In addition, the PAG is distinguished by an innovative propulsive architecture. Its two shaft lines are driven either by internal combustion engines or by electric motors. This electric propulsion makes it possible to hold low gaits without limitation of duration, nor constraint of scouring. This characteristic is particularly interesting for police and pollution control missions since it increases the time spent at sea while reducing consumption.
Having significant means of force projection and coercion, PAGs are brought to participate in the improvement of the protection of ultra-marine territories and populations by ensuring several types of missions: fisheries police, preservation of fishery resources , fight against illicit trafficking, detection of migratory flows, surveillance of navigation, safeguarding of goods and people or even fight against maritime pollution.
The name “La Combattante” was first carried by a destroyer of the Free French Naval Forces (FNFL) of the British class “Hunt”. This destroyer was given by the Royal Navy to the FNFL in 1942. On June 14, 1944, General de Gaulle, head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic, arrived on board the torpedo boat La Combattante , commanded by Lieutenant-Commander André Patou, on the beaches of Normandy liberated. Equipped with a large hunting board with no less than four German ships sunk during the war, it was destroyed by a mine in February 1945 in the North Sea.
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