Talk:USS Evea (YT-458)/@comment-86.70.225.195-20160913120217

The Resolute YT-458, if returned to USA after WWII and her Lend-Lease to France, was sent again to France that incuded her in the French Navy under the name "Le MALABAR". First based in Toulon, she was then sent to the military harbor of Diego-Suarez from where she accomplished many successful rescuing missions all around Madagascar, Comores and Indian Ocean.

In July 1967 during an rescue operation of a cargo with a second tug during a storm, a mistake of coordination between the two tugs and a very low visibility, le Malabar was pushed on the side by the tracking wire of the other tug, then was completely returned and quickly sunk with two men. All the others escaped and survived.

Never found after this time, the wreck has been finally discovered in 2010 by a diver.