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French aviso La Grandière

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La Grandière
Model of D'Entrecasteaux at Musée de la Marine de Paris
History
France
NameLa Grandière
NamesakePierre-Paul de La Grandière
BuilderAt. & Ch. de Provence, Port de Bouc
Launched22 June 1939
FateScrapped 1959
General characteristics
Class and typeBougainville-class aviso
Displacement
Length103.7 m (340 ft 3 in) (o/a)
Beam12.7 m (41 ft 8 in)
Draught4.15 m (13 ft 7 in)
Installed power2,100 PS (1,500 kW; 2,100 bhp)
Propulsion2 shafts; 2 diesel engines
Speed15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph)
Range9,000 nmi (17,000 km; 10,000 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement
  • 14 officers and 121 crewmen in peacetime;
  • 166 or 183 men in wartime
Armament
Armour
  • Hull: 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in)
  • Deck: 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in)
  • Gun shields: 3 mm (0.1 in)
Aircraft carried1 × Gourdou-Leseurre GL-832 HY floatplane

La Grandière was an Bougainville-class aviso of the French Navy, designed to operate from French colonies in Asia and Africa. She was ordered under the 1937 programme and launched on 22 June 1939 as Ville d'Ys, but completed as La Grandière.

She served in the South Pacific Area during the Second World War.

then fought in the Korean War, taking part in the Inchon Landing.

She then returned to surveillance missions in the French territories in the Pacific. She was scrapped in 1959.

References

Sources

  • Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
  • Jordan, John (2016). "The Colonial Sloops of the Bougainville Class". Warship 2016. London: Conway. pp. 8–29. ISBN 978-1-84486-326-6.
  • Le Masson, Henri (1969). The French Navy. Navies of the Second World War. Vol. 2. London: MacDonald & Co. ISBN 0-356-02385-0.
  • Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two (Third Revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2.
Bougainville-class avisos


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