 Yet Cherbourg remained a base of the first order of the National Navy, as the seat of the and of the Maritime Gendarmerie grouping of Manche.The naval base is the homeport of five patrol vessels of the Navy and the coastguard, group of the clearance divers sleeve and its building-base the "Vulcain", the tug "Abeille Liberté" and various support vessels.It is also the headquarters of the Operational Training of Surveillance and Territorial Information of Cherbourg (Cherbourg FOSIT) which brings together thirteen semaphores and the lookout of the maritime district.