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| History | |
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 France | |
| Name | La Grandière |
| Namesake | Pierre-Paul de La Grandière |
| Builder | At. & Ch. de Provence, Port de Bouc |
| Launched | 22 June 1939 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1959 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Bougainville-class aviso |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 103.7 m (340 ft 3 in) (o/a) |
| Beam | 12.7 m (41 ft 8 in) |
| Draught | 4.15 m (13 ft 7 in) |
| Installed power | 2,100 PS (1,500 kW; 2,100 bhp) |
| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 diesel engines |
| Speed | 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph) |
| Range | 9,000 nmi (17,000 km; 10,000 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
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| Aircraft carried | 1 × 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.
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