The Foch (R 99) was the sister-ship of the Clémenceau. She was the second warship named in honour of Marechal Ferdinand Foch, after a heavy cruiser comissioned in 1932, and scuttled in Toulon on the 27th of November 1942.
After a 37-year career in the French navy, on the 15th of November 2000, she was sold to the Brazilian Navy, and renamed São Paulo. As of 2004, she is still in service.
She was the second warship named in honour of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, after a heavy cruiser commissioned in 1932, and scuttled in Toulon on November 27, 1942.
Foch was featured as fighting in the Battle of the Atlantic in Tom Clancy's 1986 novel, Red Storm Rising, which detailed a conventionally-fought Third World War between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
Foch was also featured in the 1995 film Crimson Tide.
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