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French aviso La Grandière

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Name
  
La Grandière

Launched
  
22 June 1939

Weight
  
1,969 tons

Draft
  
4.8 m

Fate
  
scrapped 1959

Length
  
104 m

Displacement
  
1.969 million kg

Beam
  
13 m

Namesake
  
Pierre-Paul de La Grandière

Builder
  
At. & Ch. de Provence, Port de Bouc

Class and type
  
Propulsion
  
2 Sulzer marine diesel engines, 3,200 BHP

La Grandière was an Bougainville-class aviso of the French Navy, designed to operate from French colonies in Asia and Africa. She was ordered under the 1937 programme and launched on 22 June 1939 as Ville d'Ys, but completed as La Grandière. She was scrapped in 1959.

References

French aviso La Grandière Wikipedia


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