French aviso Rigault de Genouilly
Rigault de Genouilly in 1938
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Name | Rigault de Genouilly |
Namesake | Rigault de Genouilly |
Launched | 18 September 1932 |
Fate | sunk 4 July 1940 |
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Type | Bougainville-class aviso |
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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) |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × Gourdou-Leseurre GL-832 HY floatplane |
Rigault de Genouilly was a Bougainville-class aviso of the French Navy. The ship was designed to operate from French colonies in Asia and Africa. On 4 July 1940 Rigault de Genouilly was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine HMS Pandora off the Algerian coast.[1] The day before she had been damaged during the British attack on Mers-el-Kébir.
References[]
- ^ "Allied Warships of WWII - Submarine HMS Pandora". uboat.net. Archived from the original on 19 June 2010. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
Bibliography[]
- Jordan, John (2016). "The Colonial Sloops of the Bougainville Class". Warship 2007. London: Conway. pp. 8–29. ISBN 978-1-84486-326-6.
Categories:
- Bougainville-class avisos
- Ships built in France
- 1932 ships
- Maritime incidents in July 1940
- Ships sunk by British submarines
- World War II shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea