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That’s rather odd as the ship location tables show both LSDs Orage & Ouragan and LST Bidassoa in the Atlantic in May 82 for amphib exercise « Archipel »… well as it turns out the reason is simple: Orage transferred from the Pacific test center back to the Atlantic fleet in 1977.Likewise LST Dives was in the Med, not in the Pacific… the disposition was 2 LSTs in the Pacific (Blavet, Trieux), 2 in the Med (Argens, Dives), and one in the Atlantic (Bidassoa).As for the 2 LSMs, Champlain was in the Indian Ocean and Francis Garnier in the Caribbean. The 3rd hull (Dumont D’Urville) started sea trials in Sept. 82, so would have been too late for the Falklands.
That’s rather odd as the ship location tables show both LSDs Orage & Ouragan and LST Bidassoa in the Atlantic in May 82 for amphib exercise « Archipel »… well as it turns out the reason is simple: Orage transferred from the Pacific test center back to the Atlantic fleet in 1977.
Likewise LST Dives was in the Med, not in the Pacific… the disposition was 2 LSTs in the Pacific (Blavet, Trieux), 2 in the Med (Argens, Dives), and one in the Atlantic (Bidassoa).
As for the 2 LSMs, Champlain was in the Indian Ocean and Francis Garnier in the Caribbean. The 3rd hull (Dumont D’Urville) started sea trials in Sept. 82, so would have been too late for the Falklands.
