French frigate Doudart de Lagrée

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A starboard bow view of the French Commandant Riviere class frigate DOUDART DE LAGREE (F-728) underway - DPLA - df82a4d70b21c534049ea87a1593c361.jpeg
Doudart de Lagrée
History
France
NameDoudart de Lagrée
NamesakeErnest Doudart de Lagrée
BuilderArsenal de Lorient, Lorient
Laid downMarch 1960
Launched15 April 1961
Commissioned1 May 1963
Decommissioned1992
IdentificationPennant number: F728
FateSunk as target, 29 November 1999
General characteristics
Class and type Commandant Rivière-class frigate
Displacement
  • 1,720 long tons (1,750 t) standard
  • 2,190 long tons (2,230 t) full load
Length
  • 98.0 m (321 ft 6 in) oa
  • 103.0 m (337 ft 11 in) pp
Beam11.5 m (37 ft 9 in)
Draught4.3 m (14 ft 1 in)
Propulsion
  • 2 shafts (4 × SEMT-Pielstick 12-cylinder diesel engines)
  • 16,000 bhp (12,000 kW)
Speed25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)
Range7,500 nmi (13,900 km; 8,600 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Boats & landing
craft carried
2 × LCP landing craft
Complement166
Sensors and
processing systems
  • DRBV22A air search radar
  • DRBC32C fire control radar
  • DUBA3 sonar
  • SQS17 sonar
Armament

Doudart de Lagrée (F728) is a Commandant Rivière-class frigate in the French Navy.

Development and design[]

Designed to navigate overseas, the escort escorts were fully air-conditioned, resulting in appreciated comfort, which was far from being the case for other contemporary naval vessels.

A posting on a Aviso-escort was a boarding sought after by sailors because it was a guarantee of campaigning overseas and visiting the country.

Four other similar units were built at Ateliers et Chantiers de Bretagne (ACB) in Nantes for the Portuguese Navy under the class name João Belo.[1]

All French units were decommissioned in the mid-1990s. Three ships were sold to the Uruguayan Navy.[2][3]

In 1984, Commandant Rivière underwent a redesign to become an experimentation building. It will retain only a single triple platform of 550mm anti-submarine torpedo tubes and all the rest of the armament was landed, replaced by a single 40mm anti-aircraft gun and two 12.7mm machine guns.

Construction and career[]

Doudart de Lagrée was laid down in March 1960 at Arsenal de Lorient, Lorient. Launched on 15 April 1961 and commissioned on 1 May 1963.

From 1981 to 1983, as a preserve of Joan of Arc, she carried out 22 patrols in the Persian Gulf.[4]

In 1986, she evacuated our nationals to Aden then it will be the Gulf War and a port base in Djibouti.[4]

She was decommissioned in 1992, her number was changed to Q686 and serve as a breakwater in Brest from 1994 to 1999.

Sunk as target on 29 November 1999.

Citations[]

  1. ^ "Navires". Mer et Marine (in French). Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  2. ^ Gardiner and Chumbley 1995, p. 117.
  3. ^ "Aviso-escorteur Commandant Rivière". netmarine.net (in French). Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  4. ^ a b "* DOUDART DE LAGRÉE (1963/1991) *". www.postenavalemilitaire.com (in French). Retrieved 18 September 2021.
Retrieved from ""