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Source for the site

What you can see on this site is based on extensive documentation and numerous testimonies. Over time, some documents have been removed because this site existed before some of the events described here even took place.

Study carried out by CC Roger PIOT-CHAPPE in 1974 using the following sources:

  • Maritime Review No. 253 of April 1968 - "The loss of the submarine MINERVE" by CA (ER) SACAZE.

  • Maritime Review No. 264 of April 1969 - Marine Information Note No. 46 of February 27, 1969. "The search for the wreck of the MINERVE" presentation given on January 31, 1969 before the Naval Academy by Captain SEVAISTRE of the Naval Staff.

  • Official files of the Naval Staff.

  • Report of the conference of LV BRUTE DE REMUR at the Naval War College.

  • Information provided by Crew Officer FAUGERE

Additional information had been communicated to him by friends or extracts from official documents with the authorization of Vice-Admiral of the Squadron JOIRE-NOULENS (ALFOST) and Captain GAUTHIER (EMM/MAT/SM)

Document and information collected by Hervé Fauve 

 

  • ​Private interview with Mr. Pierre MESSMER, former Prime Minister, Minister of Defense when La Minerve disappeared (October 2003)

  • Presentation by CF KOENIG - Minerva Eurydice: 2 poorly elucidated tragedies - Brest - December 3, 1999

  • Internet exchanges with a former submariner Mr. Pascal LOURDEL in 2001

  • Private memoirs of Admiral Jean CAZENAVE (unpublished - document for his children)

  • "French submarine accidents 1945-1983"_Georges KEVORKIAN chez Marine Editions

  • Consulting Websites

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Audio-visual archives

http://www.ina.fr/video/RAF03026414/conference-de-presse-de-l-amiraute-de-toulon-sur-la-disparition-du-sous-marin-video.html

http://www.ina.fr/audio/PHF06024916

 

Consecrated to Minerva

http://www.sectionrubis.fr/spip.php?article48

http://minerves647.blogspot.co.uk/2010/

http://s647.infos.st/

http://netmarine.net/bat/smarins/minerve/index.htm

 

Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0N0KMATigQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f4lgeWqIgU&t=35s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HryqsCyqpo4

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Blogging

http://www.anciens-cols-bleus.net/t25159-minerve-sm

https://lanarvalaise.blog4ever.com/

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Many other sources will be visible from the page which aims to list all the internet links that lead to individual evocations of each of the missing members of the Minerve crew. To access it clickHERE​

Les accidents de sous-marins

Archives relating to to the sinking of the submarineThe Minerva:

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Are kept on the site of Vincennesthe following archive boxes:

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  • MV 3BB 2/3 150: operation MINERVE (January 1968) (report of the commission of inquiry, statements collected, various correspondence, messages) (1968-1970).

  • MV 3BB 2/3 829: file “Loss of the submarine Minerve 27/01/1968” (miscellaneous correspondence, messages) (1968-1970).
     

Are kept on the site ofToulonthe following archive boxes:

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  • MT/Payment GERS (group of studies and underwater research) 17 VP/2 cast 1 — 4.2: letters from April to June 1968 on the location of the submarine, work on the bathyscaphe Archimède (1968), report from the maritime prefect to the Minister of the Armed Forces (November 1968).
     

  • MT/Premar III payment EM/CAB (maritime prefecture of the 3rd region (Toulon)/staff/cabinet): 6 A 10 91 box 4677 cast 2- 102: various condolence letters, curriculum vitae of the crew (with compensation) (1968).
     

  • MT/Premar III payment OPS/PLANS (maritime prefecture of the 3rd region (Toulon)/ operations/planning): 2009 ZK 68 boxes 13, 15, 16, 17, 18 cast 2-102 — 11G6: “Runs” of the towed sled “troika” (underwater images and graphic records without commentary) (1970).
     

  • MT/sub series 3 G carton 16488 cast 2 101-20 E6:work order “Minerva” (19641968).

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About La Minerve on the site ofVincennes

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  • Interview with great sailors cote  - some allusions to the consequences of the dramas of Minerva and Eurydice 

    • Admiral Albert JOIRE NOULENS​ MV GG9 - 1 GG see pageOral testimony

    • Admiral Marc-François Marie de JOYBERT - MV GG9, 2 GG beach 3

    • Admiral Nachin - MV GG9, 22 GG track 26

    • Frigate Captain Raymond LE GUILLOU- MV GG9, 9 GG beach 8

    • Principal Master Michel SIMON - MV GG9, 15 GG beach 26

​​Thanks

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I would also like to thank the many people who contributed to enrich this site.

  • By sending me documents

  • By showing me the paths to follow

  • By sending me testimonials

  • By promoting contacts

  • By relaying the content of this site

  • By sharing their interpretation of events with me and helping to improve the content of the site

  • By pointing out errors

  • Giving me ideas
     

  • Et  simply by supporting me and encouraging me to continue

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Many of them asked me to preserve their anonymity

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Among those who agree to have their name quoted: 

  • Rear Admiral Jacques BLANC​ 

  • Rear Admiral Dominique SALLES

  • Rear Admiral Jean-Jacques LEIZE

  • Principal Master Mechanic Denis GAUDINEAU

  • Jacques MARQUET for the many illustrations

  • George KEVORKIAN for his technical explanations

  • Jean-Marc PELABON for his technical explanations

  • Jean-Gabriel NEVEU and the site "The Narvalaisefor their active support

  • The sites of the various antennas  of the AGASM

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