She was completed at the Arsenal de Cherbourg in 1978 and served the French Navy until her 2001 decommissioning.

From 2005 to 2009, Ouessant was employed as a training vessel to train Royal Malaysian Navy personnel who will operate the two French-built Scorpène-class submarines planned for the Royal Malaysian Navy.

Despite official statements in 2009 that Ouessant had been sold to Malaysia,[1] the position remained unclear.

[2] Because of Ouessant's role in the establishment of the Malaysian submarine forces, plans to return the vessel to Malaysia to serve as a museum ship were announced in July 2009.;[3] Ouessant was formally transferred to the Malaysian Government on 23 September 2011[4] to be transported to Klebang, Malacca to become a submarine museum.

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