HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant submarine collision across the seabed". However, a government spokesman said that there "was no compromise to nuclear safety". Hervé Morin, France's Minister of Defence, said that they "face an extremely simple technological problem, which is that these submarines are not detectable". HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant submarine collision The submarines HMS "Vanguard" and "Triomphant" collided in the Atlantic Ocean in the night between 3–4 February 2009. Both are nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. The Royal Navy's and the French Navy's both sustained damage, but no injuries or radioactivity releases were reported. At the time of the collision, both vessels were submerged and, according
British submarine flotilla in the Baltic the effect of allowing the Kriegsmarine to dominate the Baltic. Finns raised some parts of the scuttled British submarines before World War II but did not consider any of the submarines to be worth repairing. It is believed that the remains were raised in 1953 by the German company Beckedorf Gebryder and used as scrap metal. Wreck of "Cicero" is believed to have been located in 1995. British submarine flotilla in the Baltic A British submarine flotilla operated in the Baltic Sea for three years during the First World War. The squadron of nine submarines was attached to the Russian