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ALCYON (AGL) class

Country of Origin: France


 2 ALCYON-class MISCELLANEOUS AUXILIARIES (AG)

 Name            Pendant   Commissioned     Status

 ALCYON          .....     1981             Active
   (ex-M/V BAHRAM)
 AILETTE         .....     1982             Active
   (ex-M/V CYRUS)

These ships are used as mooring tenders. They were chartered in 1988 from the French Compagnie des Moyens de Surface adaptes a l'Exploitation des Oceans (SURF) to replace the discarded mooring tenders CIGALE and FOURMI.

Both ships are active...

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