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 destroyer Le Triomphant by a near miss. On 28, she sailed to Lorient for repairs. On 10 June 1940, at the Italian declaration of war, "Le Triomphant" was under repairs at Lorient, under "capitaine de frégate" Archambeaud. As the Germans advanced in France and threatened the harbours in Brittany, "Le Triomphant" departed for Plymouth. On 3 July 1940, she was captured by the British at Plymouth, as part of Operation Catapult. Because of the complexity of her handling and of the need to support the Free French, "Le Triomphant" was handed to the FNFL, on 28 August 1940, and put under the command