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The Brest Arsenal (
French: arsenal de Brest) is a collection of naval and military buildings located on the banks of the river
Penfeld, in
Brest, France.[1]
Timeline
1631–1635 – Beginning of the foundations of the port infrastructure.
1674 – Appearance of the Powder Magazines, Cordellerie and Military Hospital.
1683 – Creation of the Troulan dock.
1746 – Creation of the three Pontaniou docks near the anchor forges and naval constructions.
1752 – Construction of the
Bagne demolished in 1947.
1807 – Construction of the Bâtiment aux Lions to house the arsenal's magazines.
1822–1827 – Construction of Bassin 6 at the Salou.
1858 – Appropriation of the Tourville and Jean Bart quays by the navy.
1864–1865 – Construction of Bassin 7 at the Salou.
1865 – Closure of the Penfeld port to commercial boats, turning it into a military port.
1889–1896 – Construction of the South Jetty (1,500 m).
1895–1900 – Construction of the West Jetty (200 m).
1899–1902 – Transformation of the four Pontaniou docks into 2 large basins, now known as Basin 2 and Basin 3.
1900–1905 – South Jetty extended by 750 m.
1905 – Construction of the Quai d'Armement.
1910 – Installation of the Grande Grue.
1910–1916 – Digging of the two construction docks and of the Laninon dry dock, now known as Basin 8 and Basin 9.
1938 – Work begun on the construction of Bassin 10 de Laninon (work abandoned 1939–1945).
1940 – Construction of the Submarine Base during the German occupation - the military port became an important German strategic base.
1963–1964 – Jetty enlarged.
1969–1970 – Construction of aircraft-carrier locks 3 and 4.
Penfeld quays
The
Penfeld, within the military enclosure, is almost wholly lined with quays, but ships cannot come directly alongside these quays because of heads of rock that are left exposed at low tide. That's why floating stages are moored fore and aft, mainly on the left bank, to make up postes where some “small” ships can come alongside and use some installations such as the large crane.
Little used upstream of the
Pont de Recouvrance, downstream of this bridge these postes nevertheless serve the old sailing ships of the Navy, the tugboats and other support boats of the arsenal, and transrades,
passenger ships which provide a service across the
roadstead (rade de Brest) between Brest and the
Crozon peninsula (
Île Longue,
École Navale)