Manufacturer catalog

Socarenam

Socarenam is a French shipyard group based in Boulogne-sur-Mer that designs, builds, repairs, and modernizes professional vessels, including patrol vessels and special naval-support craft for French state and naval customers.

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Socarenam describes a shipbuilding business active since 1961, with more than 300 vessels completed from its workshops. Its public site presents the group as a designer and producer of professional ships ranging from patrol craft and military vessels to fishing, workboat, scientific, and service vessels, with additional maintenance, transformation, industrial, and naval-joinery capabilities.

The company operates across several French maritime and industrial sites. Socarenam's official site lists Boulogne-sur-Mer, Calais, Dunkerque, Saint-Malo, and Etaples, while its legal notice gives the registered office at 2 boulevard de Chatillon in Boulogne-sur-Mer. Defense reporting on the POM program describes Boulogne-sur-Mer as the head-office and outfitting location, Saint-Malo as a hull and superstructure construction site, and other sites as specialized around offshore markets, industrial maintenance, and small aluminum boats.

Socarenam's defense work is concentrated on steel and aluminum patrol vessels, overseas patrol ships, sonar-towing and special vessels, and coastal security craft. The company page for Patrouilleur Outre-Mer says Socarenam designed and built six 80-meter POM vessels for the French Navy's overseas sovereignty and EEZ-protection missions, while official French procurement reporting records the 24 December 2019 DGA order to the Socarenam and CNN MCO grouping.

naval shipbuildingpatrol vesselsoffshore patrol vesselscoastal security craftsonar-towing and special vesselsship repair and modernizationindustrial fabrication

Notable Systems

Félix Éboué class patrol vessel, Offshore patrol vessel, Naval Systems

Félix Éboué class patrol vessel

Offshore patrol vessel

The POM line is Socarenam's six-ship, 80-meter overseas patrol-vessel program for the French Navy, ordered by DGA from the Socarenam and CNN MCO grouping and intended for New Caledonia, French Polynesia, and La Réunion patrol coverage.

Sources: Patrouilleur Outre-Mer, DGA Euronaval 2022 dossier, Naval News POM visit
Confiance-class patrol vessel, Offshore patrol vessel class, Naval Systems

Confiance-class patrol vessel

Offshore patrol vessel class

The Confiance / PAG vessels are a Socarenam-built French Navy patrol class for Antilles-Guyane missions; Naval News identifies them as part of Socarenam's long-running French Navy patrol-vessel work.

Sources: Naval News POM visit, Patrol vessels
PCG-NG class, Next-generation coastal patrol vessel class, Naval Systems

PCG-NG class

Next-generation coastal patrol vessel class

The PCG-NG coastal patrol vessels are a Socarenam and CNN MCO procurement for France's maritime gendarmerie, with DGA describing an initial order and an option structure for up to six 46-meter vessels.

Sources: DGA PCG-NG order
Antarès class, Sonar towing vessel class, Naval Systems

Antarès class

Sonar towing vessel class

Socarenam's special-vessels range includes the Antarès sonar-towing vessels, a French Navy mine-warfare support class represented in this catalog as a sonar-towing vessel family.

Sources: Special vessels

Manufacturer History

  1. Socarenam founded

    Socarenam's official history presents 1961 as the creation of the company and its starting point in ship construction, maintenance, and repair.

    Sources: Company history

  2. Boulogne-sur-Mer site established

    The company history records Socarenam's move into Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1969; the current legal notice lists Boulogne-sur-Mer as the registered office.

    Sources: Company history, Legal notices

  3. POM contract ordered

    French DGA material says the six Patrouilleur Outre-Mer vessels were ordered on 24 December 2019 from a grouping formed by Socarenam and CNN MCO.

    Sources: DGA Euronaval 2022 dossier

  4. Maritime gendarmerie patrol-vessel order

    The DGA ordered the first next-generation coastal patrol vessel for the maritime gendarmerie from the Socarenam and CNN MCO grouping under a contract structure that could cover as many as six vessels.

    Sources: DGA PCG-NG order

  5. Hybrid maritime-affairs OPV award

    MAURIC reported that the DGAMPA awarded a Socarenam-MAURIC consortium the design-and-build contract for a 54-meter maritime-affairs offshore patrol vessel with hybrid and wind-assisted propulsion.

    Sources: MAURIC PAMNG award

Subsidiaries
Menuiserie Navale Lefevre
Website links
Official websiteCompany historyKnow-howMilitary patrol vesselsPatrouilleur Outre-Mer

Socarenam publishes some capability pages in French and English, while several military-program details are documented through DGA, French Navy, MAURIC, and defense-reporting sources. No conflict-use claims are made here for Socarenam-built vessels.

Manufacturer Sources

  • Company historyPublisher: Socarenam | Note: Official history page supporting the 1961 founding, Boulogne-sur-Mer expansion, later site-development milestones, and long-running ship construction, maintenance, and repair experience. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Legal noticesPublisher: Socarenam | Note: Official legal notice supporting the registered office, legal form, share capital, RCS registration, SIRET, contact details, and Philippe Gobert publication-director listing. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Know-howPublisher: Socarenam | Note: Official capability page supporting ship construction, maintenance and repair, transformation and modernization, industrial mechanics, Dunkerque maintenance, and Etaples naval-joinery context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Site mapPublisher: Socarenam | Note: Official site map supporting the Boulogne-sur-Mer, Calais, Dunkerque, Saint-Malo, and Etaples operating-site list. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Patrol vesselsPublisher: Socarenam | Note: Official patrol-vessel range page supporting the military patrol-craft focus, French customs patrol-vessel references, light armament on the 43-meter surveillance vessel, and the company claim of more than 300 completed vessels. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Patrouilleur Outre-MerPublisher: Socarenam | Note: Official POM page supporting Socarenam's design and construction role, six-vessel program size, 80-meter length, 1,300-ton displacement, one-month autonomy, crew and passenger capacity, remote gun, RHIB, UAV, and overseas French basing context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Special vesselsPublisher: Socarenam | Note: Official special-vessels page supporting the Antarès sonar-towing vessel connection and Socarenam's naval-support-vessel capability. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • DGA Euronaval 2022 dossierPublisher: Ministère des Armées / Direction générale de l'armement | Note: Official DGA press dossier supporting the 24 December 2019 six-POM order to the Socarenam and CNN MCO grouping. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • DGA PCG-NG orderPublisher: Ministère des Armées / Direction générale de l'armement | Note: Official DGA release supporting the 12 August 2022 PCG-NG order from the Socarenam and CNN MCO grouping, program ceiling, vessel dimensions, endurance, speed, armament, and planned locations. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Naval News POM visitPublisher: Naval News | Note: Defense-reporting site visit supporting the five-site industrial layout, Boulogne head-office context, Saint-Malo hull and superstructure work, French Navy patrol-vessel history, and POM program schedule and mission background. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • MAURIC PAMNG awardPublisher: MAURIC | Note: Partner announcement supporting the December 2024 DGAMPA award to the Socarenam-MAURIC consortium for an innovative 54-meter maritime-affairs offshore patrol vessel, with construction at Boulogne-sur-Mer and delivery planned for the second half of 2027. | Accessed: 2026-07-11

Produced weapons

Category

Naval Systems

Warships, submarines, unmanned surface vessels, naval craft, and maritime combat systems.

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PCG-NG class, Next-generation coastal patrol vessel class, Naval Systems2015 Various ConflictsPCG-NG classNext-generation coastal patrol vessel classBuilt in: FranceThe PCG-NG class is a French next-generation coastal patrol vessel programme designed by Mauric and built by Socarenam for state-action-at-sea missions. The 46-metre vessels combine a stern ramp, fast RHIB launch-and-recovery, seven-day endurance, and light machine-gun armament for maritime policing, border control, fisheries enforcement, surveillance, search and rescue, and patrol support around metropolitan and overseas French waters.
Félix Éboué class patrol vessel, Offshore patrol vessel, Naval Systems2015 Various ConflictsFélix Éboué class patrol vesselOffshore patrol vesselBuilt in: FranceThe Félix Éboué class patrol vessel, also known as the Patrouilleur Outre-Mer (POM), is France's six-ship overseas offshore patrol vessel program for sovereignty, maritime surveillance, law-enforcement, environmental-protection, and rescue missions in distant EEZs. Built by Socarenam with CNN MCO support and designed by MAURIC, the class is distributed across Nouméa, Papeete, and La Réunion and combines diesel-electric propulsion, a 5,500 nm range, a 24-knot top speed, UAV integration, and a 20 mm Narwhal remote weapon station for extended Indo-Pacific and Indian Ocean patrol work.
Confiance-class patrol vessel, Offshore patrol vessel class, Naval Systems2022 Haitian Gang ConflictConfiance-class patrol vesselOffshore patrol vessel classBuilt in: FranceThe Confiance-class patrol vessel is a French Navy offshore patrol vessel class built by Socarenam from MAURIC designs for overseas sovereignty patrols in Guyane and the Antilles. The three 61-meter PAG ships combine a 20 mm remote weapon station, heavy machine guns, fast craft, navigation sensors, and pollution-response capacity for EEZ surveillance, fisheries policing, anti-trafficking, space-launch security, and crisis-response missions.