French aviso Rigault de Genouilly
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.
 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 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Bougainville-class aviso |
| Displacement | |
| 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 |
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.
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