French aviso La Grandière

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.

La Grandière

Model of D'Entrecasteaux at Musée de la Marine de Paris
History
France
Name	La Grandière
Namesake	Pierre-Paul de La Grandière
Builder	At. & Ch. de Provence, Port de Bouc
Launched	22 June 1939
Fate	Scrapped 1959
General characteristics
Class and type	Bougainville-class aviso
Displacement	1,969 t (1,938 long tons) (standard) 2,600 t (2,600 long tons) (full load)
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)
Complement	14 officers and 121 crewmen in peacetime; 166 or 183 men in wartime
Armament	3 × single 138.6 mm (5.5 in) guns 4 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) AA guns 3 × twin 13.2 mm (0.52 in) machine guns 50 × mines
Armour	Hull: 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) Deck: 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) Gun shields: 3 mm (0.1 in)
Aircraft carried	1 × Gourdou-Leseurre GL-832 HY floatplane

She served in the South Pacific Area during the Second World War.

then fought in the Korean War, taking part in the Inchon Landing.

She then returned to surveillance missions in the French territories in the Pacific. She was scrapped in 1959.

Sources

• Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
• Jordan, John (2016). "The Colonial Sloops of the Bougainville Class". Warship 2016. London: Conway. pp. 8–29. ISBN 978-1-84486-326-6.
• Le Masson, Henri (1969). The French Navy. Navies of the Second World War. Vol. 2. London: MacDonald & Co. ISBN 0-356-02385-0.
• Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two (Third Revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2.