AdmiralGeorges Cabanier (21 November 1906 – 26 October 1976) was a French Naval Officer and Admiral, in addition to Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour.
In 1928, he served successively on both the Du Couëdic and DuperréAvisos, then on the military transport Seine.
In 1930, he partook to campaigns in Antilles, Bermudes, Acores and Terre-neuve on board aviso Aldebaran.
After one year at the torpedo officer and electricians school, Georges Cabanier opted for a career as a submariner in the submarine service (French: La sous-marinade). In 1932, he embarked on board 1500 ton-classsubmarineL'Achéron, then on submarineLe Saphir.
Lieutenant de vaisseau in 1934, he served on submarineOrion, in 1936, on submarine cruiserSurcouf,[1] on which he partook to an endurance cruise in the South Atlantic.
In 1938, he served, then was designated as commandant of the mine laying Rubis.
Since June 1940, he opted to serve the camp of Free France with the quasi-totality of his crew. His RubisFNFL pavilion pursued patrols in the Northern seas and conducted several mine laying missions in the larger oceanic area of Norway.
First under the orders of capitaine de corvette Cabanier then Lieutenant de vaisseau Rousselot, the Rubis was one of the most effective submarines of the French Navy during the second world war.
Capitaine de corvette in January 1941, he joined the Pacific (December 1941), where he was designated chef d'état-major of admiral Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu.
He served as the Naval attaché to the U.S. in July 1949, and received his contre-amiral stars in January 1951.
In January 1953, the contre-amiral Cabanier was designated as secretary general adjoint of the Défense nationale (French: Secrétaire général adjoint de la Défense nationale).
In March 1954, he was the head of the naval contingent in Indochina. Upon his return to France in February 1956, he was designated as the chef de l'État-major of the particular naval state secretary (French: chef de l'État-major particulier du secrétaire d'état à la Marine).
Vice-amiral in November 1956, he assumed a couple of days later the command of Anti-Submarine Action Group (French: Groupe d'Action Anti-sous-marine - GASM).
In 1957, Admiral Cabanier intervened so that the Rubis (along with corvette Aconit, the only two Compagnon de la Libération naval warships of the French Navy), would not get disposed of. Accordingly, a sonar target use was assigned which resulted in drowning the boat indefinitely in the Mediterranean Sea.
In June 1958, he was assigned as chef d'État-major de la Défense nationale (French: chef d'État-major de la Défense nationale) of the cabinet of général de Gaulle.
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Bibliographies
Jean-Louis Maurette, L'épopée des sous-marins Narval et Rubis : Une histoire héroïque de la France Libre, Éditions du Grand Blockhaus, 2014 ISBN2-918-50504-8.
Georges Cabanier, Croisières périlleuses, Paris, Éditions Presses de la Cité, 1969.
Jean-Christophe Notin, 1061 compagnons : Histoire des Compagnons de la Libération, Éditions Perrin, 2000, 822 p. ISBN2-262-01606-2.
Vladimir Trouplin, Dictionnaire des Compagnons de la Libération, Elytis, 2010, 1230 p. ISBN2-356-39033-2.
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