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French submarine Émeraude (S604)

Nuclear attack submarine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Émeraude was a nuclear attack submarine from the first generation of attack submarines of the French Navy. Having been in service since 1988, she was retired in 2024.

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“French submarine Émeraude (S604)” enters the record as nuclear attack submarine. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what French, submarine and Émeraude can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around French, submarine and Émeraude.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1988 and 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “French submarine Émeraude (S604)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.