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Grande Rade

Grande Rade is an anchorage in , . Grande Rade is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include French submarine Redoutable and Cherbourg Naval Base.

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Le Redoutable was the lead boat of her class of ballistic missile submarines in the French Marine nationale. Commissioned on 1 December 1971, the boat was the first French SNLE.

Naval base
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is a naval base in Cherbourg Harbour, Cherbourg, department, Normandy. The town has been a base of the French Navy since the opening of the military port in 1813.

Museum
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The is a maritime museum in Cherbourg, . The museum is in the cruise terminal of Cherbourg. This monument was built in 1933; it is one of the bigger art-deco monuments of today.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cherbourg-en-Cotentin and Octeville.

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Cherbourg is a port town at the north end of the Cotentin Peninsula in , . Cherbourg is located near the D-Day beaches where Allied forces landed in 1944 during World War II. The town was liberated by American troops shortly after that.

Suburb
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is a suburb, which is situated 4½ km south of Grande Rade.

Suburb
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is a former commune in the department in north-western . On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of . is situated 5 km west of Grande Rade.

Grande Rade

Latitude
49.66612° or 49° 39′ 58″ north
Longitude
-1.62489° or 1° 37′ 30″ west
Open location code
8CXWM98G+C2
Geo­Names ID
3231081
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