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
French submarine Saphir (S602) French submarine Saphir (S602) Le Saphir is a first-generation nuclear attack submarine of the French Navy. The boat was to be named "Bretagne", however was renamed "Le Saphir" in 1981 before commissioning. The boat is the second of the "Rubis" series. Between October 1989 and May 1991, the boat undertook a major refit which revolved around upgrades to the level of the lead vessel in the class, . In September 2001, the boat torpedoed and sank the ex-destroyer "" expended as a target ship off Toulon. On 6 March 2015 it was reported that in a later erased blogspot of