French aviso Bougainville
Model of D'Entrecasteaux at Musée de la Marine de Paris | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| France | |
| Name | Bougainville |
| Namesake | Admiral Louis Antoine de Bougainville |
| Laid down | 25 November 1929 |
| Launched | 25 April 1931 |
| Commissioned | 15 February 1933 |
| Fate | Sunk 9 November 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 | 2,100 PS (1,500 kW; 2,100 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 |
Bougainville was one of a dozen Bougainville-class avisos built for the French Navy during the 1930s. The ship was designed to operate from French colonies in Asia and Africa and initially stationed in the Indian Ocean. Completed in 1933, the ship sided with Vichy France and was sunk by its sister Savorgnan de Brazza in November 1940 off Libreville in the Battle of Gabon.