Albert MIGLIACCIO brother of Nicolas MIGLIACCIO

“ My father, who was a diver, died of grief a year after Nicolas (Migliaccio). He was convinced that the Minerve had been destroyed by the Soviets. »

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Valerie X.

“When I was little, I dared not admit to my school friends that my father had died on a submarine for fear of being taken for a mytho. So I said that he had died in a car accident”.

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Jean-Marc BARELLI

";It was partly due to the tragedy at La Minerve that I became a submariner, it's a complex and twisted reasoning, but I was in the last company of the school of apprentice mechanics at the time of the tragedy, and I've followed on my transistor (rare at the time and hidden under my pillow so as not to be surprised), all the research operations on a marine frequency. Paradoxically, this dramatic situation reinforced my idea of a desire to dive, which was already rooted in me, influenced as I was by my neighborhood neighbor in Nice, Commander Cousteau, who was building the underwater house in the port of Nice during this period. »

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Camille SELLIER

“After considerable work by the commission of inquiry  Minerve, major modifications to the equipment had been decided, some of which only applicable during the following major refit (thus the Eurydice and the Flora had no not yet benefited from all of these modifications), but also modifications to the instructions for implementation, the construction of a piloting simulator in current mode as in degraded modes allowing in particular training in reactions in the event of d water and stricter supervision of staff training with the qualification system.

All this must be placed in the conditions of the time and the strong constraints weighing on the submarinade of the moment, a small force of 1500 men having to arm Le Redoutable and Le Terrible, achieve a double jump in quality (the technologies implemented on board SSBNs being of a much higher order than those of Diesel submarines) and in quantity to eventually provide at least 12 SSBN crews while retaining around twenty classic submarines and hoping for the upcoming advent of SNA . If you add the support for sales to foreign navies and the considerable ex-nihilo training effort of the Pakistani and South Africans, almost ex-nihilo of the Portuguese and the Spanish, going from submarines designed before the war to the type the most modern and the most efficient existing in Europe, you will have a small idea of the general atmosphere of the moment.

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Christiane SONNTAG-GERHARDS fiancée of Jacques PRIARD

“(in January 2019) I recently revealed to my children and his grandchildren the relationship that once united me to this young sailor (Jacques Priard). Due to current events and the initiation of new research, fifty years after the disaster.”

 

Daniel ALBERTI

"The aunts of Christian NICOLAS, whom I knew at the school of mechanics, kept money invested even today, that Nicolas" parents had saved, they died hoping for their return. They remain very angry with the authorities and they too still hope for it. It is resentment that surpasses mourning among these old ladies. They have been kept in ignorance, which has lengthened their pain. The aunt who is 80 years old was like a sister to Christian, they were only 10 years apart, you have to hear her talk about him, she brought tears to my eyes.

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Philippe BIDAL

In 1976, I was a young sailor on the Flore and on chore to tidy up our attics in the BSM building, a quartermaster showed me the open attic of the Minerve or the Eurydice ( I don';t know anymore) and said to me “you see these are the effects of certain members of the crew that the families have not recovered” I was shocked, we did not linger.

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