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The raised Bugaled Breizh
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History | |
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Name | Bugaled Breizh |
Owner | Micheal Douce |
Builder | Bretagne Sud |
Completed | 1986 |
Out of service | 15 January 2004 |
Identification |
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Fate | capsized, 15 January 2004 |
Status | raised June 2004, examined and stored |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Motorized fishing vessel |
Tonnage | 103 |
Length | 24 m (79 ft) |
Crew | 5 |
MFV Bugaled Breizh is a French trawler from Loctudy, Finistère, whose sinking with all hands in 90 metres of water in the English Channel on 15 January 2004 remains unresolved. While it appeared possible that the ship was pulled under by a submarine, a specific submarine could not be identified from among the number of submarines of several nations operating in the general vicinity of the accident site. Moreover, the condition of the ship's recovered trawling equipment was reported by a technical inquiry to not be consistent with a submarine entanglement.[2]
The motorized fishing vessel (MFV) was built in 1986 by the Bretagne Sud shipyard in Belz.[1] Its name means "Children of Brittany" in the Breton language.[3]