NAV09JA-1: France 2009 - Naval cover LAST MISSION OF HC "JEANNE D'ARC" ⦾Paris

45th and Final Mission of the French Helicopter Carrier "Jeanne d’Arc" December 2, 2009 – May 30, 2010

Commissioned in 1964, the french helicopter carrier Jeanne d'Arc, accompanied by the frigate Courbet, carried out a final campaign with the officer-students of the Naval Academy, from December 2009 to May 2010. The Jeanne d’Arc, which covered nearly 1.8 million nautical miles, or approximately 3.3 million kilometers (the equivalent of 79 trips around the world or 9 times the distance from Earth to the Moon) and made nearly 800 stopovers around the world, will have trained more than 6,000 officers in 45 years of active service and as many campaigns. Each had around 800 sailors embarked on the two ships (the PH Jeanne d’Arc and its companion, which was for a long time the anti-submarine frigate Georges Leygues), including around a hundred student officers. At the end of its last campaign, the helicopter carrier Jeanne d’Arc returned to its base port, Brest. The procedure applied to all ships at the end of their life will then be initiated. (source: SIRPA Marine)

It is to pay a final tribute to this “Ambassador of France” that Editions Historiaphil© have designed and assembled a collection of postage stamps and historical documents commemorating the highlights of its last campaign around the world.