sentences: "Pluton" was transferred to Lorient on 10 May 1939 when the French Navy formed the 5e Escadre there which controlled all training ships and planned to convert her into a full-time training ship as consort to the training cruiser on 1 June 1940.She would have been renamed "La Tour d'Auvergne" at that time, as the name "Pluton" was reserved for mine warfare ships in the French Navy.