''Latouche-Tréville'' was a F70 type anti-submarine destroyer of the French Navy '' (Marine Nationale)''. The French Navy does not use the term " destroyer" for its ships. Thus, some large ships, referred to as "frégates" in French, are registered as destroyers. And additionally, some minor ships, referred to as "avisos" in French, are registered as frigates. She was the third French vessel named after the 18-19th century politician and admiral

Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville Louis-René Madelaine Le Vassor, comte de La Touche-TrévilleLevot, p.295 (3 June 1745 – 19 August 1804)Levot, p. 296 was a French vice-admiral. He fought in the American War of Independence and became a prominent figure of the French Rev ...

Service history

In November 2006 and again in June 2010, ''Latouche-Tréville'' visited London on diplomatic duties, and was moored alongside the Second World War cruiser, . In mid 2009, she was filmed in stormy seas as part of the documentary ''

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''. In late 2009, while attached to an international force of

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vessels, ''Latouche-Tréville'' visited

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in the

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with vessels of the Dutch, Norwegian, Spanish and Turkish navies. On 15 October 2012, the frigate was moored at

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Docks in Scotland. On 18 April 2015, she escorted a replica of the 18th century sailing ship as it departed

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, France on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic to

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in the United States. ''Latouche-Tréville'' returned to

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with the ship on 10 August. In May, ''Latouche-Tréville'' was among a dozen surface vessels and four submarines that took part in

's annual "Dynamic Mongoose" military exercise. Amid rising tensions with Russia, the two-week event in Norwegian waters saw ships under NATO command conducting a variety of anti-submarine warfare operations. On 4 June, she was moored again at Leith Docks in Scotland. On 9 January 2020, the vessel suffered damage in a storm soon after departing from Brest, and returned to port the next day with her top mast missing. The incident also destroyed an electronic warfare pod and damaged the starboard SYRACUSE system. As of 2020, with the retirement of her sister ship , ''Latouche-Tréville'' was the last vessel of her class in service. In March 2022, the frigate deployed to the

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for exercises with other NATO navies. On the deployment the ship embarked an older Alouette III helicopter. She returned to Brest in June 2022. The frigate was withdrawn from service on 1 July 2022.

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* Clip of in the documentary ''Oceans'' * Video of ship in heavy seas {{DEFAULTSORT:Latouche Treville, French frigate Georges Leygues-class frigates Frigates of France Ships built in France 1988 ships