French aviso Amiral Charner

*Amiral Charner*
History
France
Name	Amiral Charner
Namesake	Admiral Léonard Charner
Launched	7 October 1932
Fate	Scuttled 10 March 1945
General characteristics
Type	Bougainville-class aviso
Displacement	1,969 t (1,938 long tons) (standard); 2,600 t (2,600 long tons) (full load);
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	2,191 PS (1,611 kW; 2,161 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)
Complement	14 officers and 121 crewmen in peacetime;; 166 or 183 men in wartime;
Armament	3 × single 138.6 mm (5.5 in) guns; 4 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) AA guns; 3 × twin 13.2 mm (0.52 in) machine guns ; 50 × mines;
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 carried	1 × Gourdou-Leseurre GL-832 HY floatplane

Amiral Charner was a Bougainville-class aviso of the French Navy launched 7 October 1932. The ship was designed to operate from French colonies in Asia and Africa. On the night between 16 and 17 January 1941, she participated in the Battle of Koh Chang.^[1] She was scuttled in the Mỹ Tho River, Vietnam 10 March 1945.^[2]

Model of sister ship D'Entrecasteaux at the Musée de la Marine de Paris

References[]

^ "La bataille de Koh Chang (janvier 1941)" (in French). NetMarine.net. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
^ Labayle Couhat, Jean. French Warships of World War II . ISBN 0-7110-0153-7. OCLC 1145256109.

Bibliography[]

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 2007. London: Conway. pp. 8–29. ISBN 978-1-84486-326-6.
Le Masson, Henri (1969). The French Navy. Navies of the Second World War. 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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[1] "La bataille de Koh Chang (janvier 1941)" (in French). NetMarine.net. Retrieved 20 December 2011.

[2] Labayle Couhat, Jean. French Warships of World War II . ISBN 0-7110-0153-7. OCLC 1145256109.

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show v t Bougainville-class avisos
Amiral Charner Bougainville Dumont d'Urville D'Entrecasteaux Ville d'Ys / La Grandière D'Iberville Rigault de Genouilly Savorgnan de Brazza Le Beautemps-Beaupré La Pérouse
Preceded by: La Melpomène class Followed by: Chamois class
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show v t Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in March 1945
Shipwrecks	1 Mar: USS Hannibal 2 Mar: U-3519 3 Mar: HMT Southern Flower, HMAS Steady Hour 4 Mar: U-3508 5 Mar: Nagara Maru 6 Mar: Albert Ballin, Z28 7 Mar: U-1302 10 Mar: Amiral Charner, U-275, U-681 11 Mar: U-682 12 Mar: USS Bass, U-260 13 Mar: HMS Sealion 13 Mar. Taber Park 14 Mar: Hugo Zeye, U-714, U-1021 15 Mar: USS Lancetfish 16 Mar: U-367 17 Mar: HMCS Guysborough 18 Mar: U-866, TA24 19 Mar: Empire Blessing, Suma, Samselbu 20 Mar: M18, Hakuyo Maru 21 Mar: James Eagan Layne 23 Mar: Gneisenau, Ro-41, USS S-21 24 Mar: Tomozuru 26 Mar: HMAS Terka, U-399, U-1003, Zähringen 27 Mar: U-722, U-905 28 Mar: USS Skylark, USS Trigger 29 Mar: Cha-156, Kommandøren, U-1106, U-1169 30 Mar: Köln, U-96, U-348, U-350, U-429, U-430, U-870, U-884, U-965, U-1131, U-1167, U-2340, U-3508 31 Mar: Ha-60, I-8 Unknown date: Ha-69, USS Kete, U-296
Other incidents	6 Mar: Greenhill Park 11 Mar: U-1201 16 Mar: I-47 18 Mar: Brünhilde 19 Mar: USS Franklin, Ryūhō 23 Mar: U-1003 26 Mar: USS Halligan, HMS Puffin 29 Mar: HMCS Teme 30 Mar: U-1197 31 Mar: USS Coos Bay Unknown date: U-758
1944 1945 1946 February 1945 April 1945

History

France
Name	Amiral Charner
Namesake	Admiral Léonard Charner
Launched	7 October 1932
Fate	Scuttled 10 March 1945
General characteristics
Type	Bougainville-class aviso
Displacement	1,969 t (1,938 long tons) (standard) 2,600 t (2,600 long tons) (full load)
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	2,191 PS (1,611 kW; 2,161 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)
Complement	14 officers and 121 crewmen in peacetime; 166 or 183 men in wartime
Armament	3 × single 138.6 mm (5.5 in) guns 4 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) AA guns 3 × twin 13.2 mm (0.52 in) machine guns 50 × mines
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 carried	1 × Gourdou-Leseurre GL-832 HY floatplane