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After a gruelling 350-metre overland trip, including a 90-degree turn, the SA Navy Museum submarine SAS Assegaai was finally delivered to her final resting place at the Naval Museum in Simon’s Town on Saturday. SAS Assegaai, formerly known as SAS Johanna van der Merwe, is the last remaining of the three French-built submarines that were operated by the South African Navy from the 1970s into the 1990s.
The dream of conserving the submarine began in late 2003 when Assegaai was decommissioned, and removed from the Disposal List, which also resulted in her two elder sisters being sold and scrapped. From 2010 until 2015, Assegaai operated as a museum, anchored beside the outside wall of Simon's Town Harbour. When the submarine was removed from the ocean in 2015 and placed on the synchro lift within the harbour, it became clear that the outer shell had deteriorated.
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