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The boat was decommissioned in 1991. In 2000, the boat was removed from the water and placed in a purpose-built 136 metres (446 ft) dry dock, and over two years was made into an exhibit. This was a monumental task, the biggest portion of which was removing the nuclear reactor and replacing the
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open to the public and the only nearly-complete ballistic missile submarine hull open to the public — although several museums display small portions, such as sails and/or parts of rudders from such submarines. Special dinner events for organizations aboard this boat's interior spaces are
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had a 20-year duty history, with 51 patrols of 70 days each, totalling an estimated 90,000 hours of diving and 1.27 million kilometres (790,000 mi) of distance, the equivalent of travelling 32 times around the Earth.
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at 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi). In 1974, the boat was refitted with the
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midsection with an empty steel tube. In 2002, the boat opened as a
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Commissioned on 1 December 1971, the boat was the first French
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Cherbourg
Île Longue
Redoutable-class submarine
PWR
HEU
M20 MSBS
torpedo
Exocet
lead boat
her class
ballistic missile
submarines
Marine nationale
SNLE
M1 MSBS
submarine-launched ballistic missiles
kilotons

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