The Flore (S 645) is a French Daphné-class submarine. Launched in 1960, it was in service from 1964 to 1989. Since 2010, it has been visited as a museum in Lorient. The submarine was named Flore on April 17, 19561. It was started at the Directorate of Naval Construction and Weapons (DCAN) in Cherbourg on June 19, 1958. It is the fifth in the series of high-performance submarines of Daphne type. It was launched on December 21, 1960 and was launched at sea on September 22, 1961. The submarine Flore was admitted to active service on May 21, 1964 and assigned to the 1st submarine squadron (ESM) in Toulon, its base port. His career took place mainly in the Mediterranean. He occasionally joins Lorient for periods of major refit. On July 12, 1995, the submarine Flore was put on dry land on the slipway of the Lorient submarine base. It will be temporarily sheltered from July 3, 1997 to April 9, 2000 in cell no. 1, taking into account the weather, strong winds could unbalance it. Then, the submarine was maintained by former volunteer submariners grouped within the MESMAT association (Museum of the Atlantic Submarine Squadron) which was created to support the transformation project. of the submarine in a naval museum.
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