French aviso Commandant Bouan

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Commandant Bouan
History
France
NameCommandant Bouan
Namesake
BuilderArsenal de Lorient, Lorient
Laid down12 October 1981
Launched23 May 1983
Commissioned11 May 1984
DecommissionedExpected, 2026
Identification
StatusActive
General characteristics
Class and type D'Estienne d'Orves-class aviso
Displacement
  • 1,100 t (1,100 long tons) standard
  • 1,270 t (1,250 long tons) full load
Length
  • 80 m (262 ft 6 in) oa
  • 76 m (249 ft 4 in) pp
Beam10.3 m (33 ft 10 in)
Draught5.3 m (17 ft 5 in)
Propulsion
Speed23.5 knots (43.5 km/h; 27.0 mph)
Range4,500 nmi (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement90
Sensors and
processing systems
  • 1 Air/surface DRBV 51A sentry radar
  • 1 DRBC 32E fire control radar
  • 1 Decca 1226 navigation radar
  • 1 DUBA 25 hull sonar (removed when reclassified as an OPV)
Electronic warfare
& decoys
  • 1 ARBR 16 radar interceptor
  • 2 Dagaie decoy launchers
  • 1 SLQ-25 Nixie countermeasure system
Armament

Commandant Bouan (F797) is a D'Estienne d'Orves-class aviso in the French Navy.

Design[]

Main article: D'Estienne d'Orves-class aviso

Armed by a crew of 90 sailors, these vessels have the reputation of being among the most difficult in bad weather. Their high windage makes them particularly sensitive to pitch and roll as soon as the sea is formed.

Their armament, consequent for a vessel of this tonnage, allows them to manage a large spectrum of missions. During the Cold War, they were primarily used to patrol the continental shelf of the Atlantic Ocean in search of Soviet Navy submarines. Due to the poor performance of the hull sonar, as soon as an echo appeared, the reinforcement of an ASM frigate was necessary to chase it using its towed variable depth sonar.[2]

Their role as patrollers now consists mainly of patrols and assistance missions, as well as participation in UN missions (blockades, flag checks) or similar marine policing tasks (fight against drugs, extraction of nationals, fisheries control, etc.). The mer-mer 38 or mer-mer 40 missiles have been landed, but they carry several machine guns and machine guns, more suited to their new missions.

Its construction cost was estimated at 270,000,000 French francs.[3]

Construction and career[]

Commandant Bouan was laid down on 12 October 1981 at Arsenal de Lorient, Lorient. Launched on 23 May 1983 and commissioned on 11 May 1984.

On Tuesday, 15 July 2008, at 9:12 a.m., while she was preparing to leave the port of Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) where he had spent three days on the occasion of the 14 July ceremonies, the ship came colliding with the quay at the level of its bow during its departure maneuver, a port pilot being on board and a tug hitched up. The damage consisted mainly of a sinking of the bow above the waterline, which was the subject of a makeshift repair by DCNS personnel, dispatched to the site. It is therefore with a delay of 24 hours that the vessel reached Toulon, its port-base, where final repairs will be carried out during the unavailability for maintenance, already scheduled for this building in September and October 2008.[4]

In June 2021, she participated in anti-piracy missions in the Gulf of Guinea off Nigeria.

She is scheduled to be withdrawn from service in 2026 and be replaced by one of a new class of ocean-going Patrol Vessels (the Patrouilleurs Océanique).[5]

Citations[]

  1. ^ a b c "Patrouilleurs: Les avisos français sur tous les fronts" [Patrol ships: French Avisos on all fronts.]. asafrance.fr (in French). 26 January 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Euronaval: First details of the Patrouilleurs Océanique (PO) platform unveiled". Naval News. 23 October 2020. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  3. ^ Quid 1996. p. 2036. ISBN 2-221-08055-6.
  4. ^ {}. "L'aviso Commandant Bouan heurte le quai lors de son appareillage de Nice". www.corlobe.tk (in French). Retrieved 17 September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Groizeleau, Vincent (6 May 2021). "La Marine nationale va rapidement désarmer ses derniers PHM" [The French Navy will quickly disarm its last PHM]. Mer et Marine (in French). https://www.meretmarine.com/fr/content/la-marine-nationale-va-rapidement-se-separer-de-ses-derniers-phm Retrieved 15 June 2021.
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