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French aviso Bougainville

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Bougainville
Model of D'Entrecasteaux at Musée de la Marine de Paris
History
France
NameBougainville
NamesakeAdmiral Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Laid down25 November 1929
Launched25 April 1931
Commissioned15 February 1933
FateSunk 9 November 1940
General characteristics
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

Bougainville was a Bougainville-class aviso of the French Navy launched on 25 April 1931 and commissioned on 15 February 1933.[1][2] The ship was designed to operate from French colonies in Asia and Africa and initially stationed in the Indian Ocean.[2] In 1935 it was transferred for service in the eastern and southern Mediterranean, and in early 1939 to Djibouti, returning to Toulon escorting a group of submarines after the outbreak of World War II.[2]

It sided with Vichy France and was sunk by off Libreville by its sister ship Savorgnan de Brazza on 9 November 1940 in the Battle of Gabon. Although refloated in March 1941, Bougainville sank again and was finally broken up in 1952.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Bougainville". Netmarine.net. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d Roche, Jean-Michel (2013). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la Flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours: Tome II (in French). JMR. ISBN 978-2-9525917-3-7.

Bibliography

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  • 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.

Further reading

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  • Landais, Henri (2012). Les Avisos Coloniaux [The Colonial Avisos] (in French). Lela Presse. ISBN 978-2-914017-64-0.