The Atlantic shipyards were born from the merger of the shipyards of the Loire and of Penhoet. After some years of stagnation, the orders flowed back and Saint-Nazaire has found its smile again.

Built in 1957 at the Augustin-Normand dockyard in Le Havre, the Espadon (Swordfish) was the first French submarine to navigate beneath the polar ice. A tour of its narrow passageways provides an insight into the underwater world of the 70 sailors who..

The history of Saint-Nazaire’s port began in 1856 with Nantes’ outer harbour, which has since developed into a major port covering an area of 20 000ha between the two towns. In the 1990s, a project involving the reclamation of wasteland and the subma..