French minesweeper Vulcain

Vulcain is a Vulcain-class minesweeper of the French Navy. She is classed by the French Navy as a BBPD type vessel and is used as a base ship for clearance divers.

Construction and career

Vulcain was launched on 17 January 1986 and commissioned on 11 October. She is based in Cherbourg Naval Base, in Cherbourg, France, and is run by the 1st GPD Groupement de Plongeurs démineurs, a group of French Army clearance divers. Since 16 May 1987, she has been symbolically linked with the town of Honfleur. The personnel on board usually comprises 12 divers, 1 medical officer and 1 nurse.
Other BBPDs of the Vulcain type are:

BBPD Styx - M614
BBPD Pluton - M622
BBPD Achéron - A613