Argonaute (S636)

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French submarine Argonaute (S636)
Cité des sciences et de l'industrie
Parc de la Villette
Avenue Corentin-Cariou
Quartier du Pont-de-Flandre, 19th arrondissement
Paris, July 2004

“In 1982, the Association of Friends of the Maritime Museum for the Atlantic (l'Association des amis du Musée de la mer pour l'Atlantique) selected Argonaute to save from scrapping. The Minister of Defence, Charles Hernu, agreed to save the submarine in 1984 after it was to become part of a permanent exhibition devoted to history of submarines and the technologies used in their construction at Cité des sciences et de l'industrie in La Villette Park, Paris. Argonaute, in reserve since 1982, was transported in 1989 on a 94 m (308 ft) barge, itself pulled by a tug, which arrived in Le Havre three weeks later via Gibraltar. The barge then went up the Seine to Gennevilliers where a dozen float balloons were added to raise the draught of the barge. Then the barge passed through the seven locks of the Saint-Denis Canal. Once at the quay on the Canal de l'Ourcq, Argonaute was lifted from the water by cranes and transported 400 metres (1,300 ft) by trailer to its current site. Argonaute opened to the public in 1991, outside the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie, 30 Avenue Corentin Cariou, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris.[7] In 2018, the permanent exhibition underwent an overhaul to include information about the future of the oceans.” (French submarine Argonaute (S636), Wikipedia)