| French aviso La Grandière | |
|---|---|
| Career (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 & type: | Bougainville-class aviso |
| Displacement: | 1,969 tonnes |
| Length: | 103.7 metres (340 ft) |
| Beam: | 12.98 metres (42.6 ft) |
| Draft: | 4.8 metres (16 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 2 Sulzer marine diesel engines, 3,200 BHP |
| Speed: | 17 knots (31 km/h) |
| Complement: | 139 peacetime; 183 wartime |
| Armament: |
3 × 138mm guns model 1927 (single mountings) 4 × 40mm AA guns (single mountings) 11 × 20 mm machine guns (single mountings) 4 × anti-submarine mortars capacity to carry 66 mines |
La Grandière was an Bougainville-class aviso of the French Navy, designed to operate from French colonies in Asia and Africa. She was launched on 22 June 1939 as Ville d'Ys, but completed as La Grandière. She was scrapped in 1959.
Sources[]
- Le Masson, Henri (1969). The French Navy. Navies of the Second World War. 2. London: MacDonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.. pp. 11–13. ISBN 9780356023847.
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