French aviso Amiral Charner

Amiral Charner was a Bougainville-class aviso of the French Navy launched 7 October 1932. The ship was designed to operate from French colonies in Asia and Africa. On the night between 16 and 17 January 1941, she participated in the Battle of Koh Chang.[1] She was scuttled in the Mỹ Tho River, Vietnam 10 March 1945.[2]

Model of sister ship D'Entrecasteaux at the Musée de la Marine de Paris

Amiral Charner
History
France
Name: Amiral Charner
Namesake: Admiral Léonard Charner
Launched: 7 October 1932
Fate: Scuttled 10 March 1945
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)
Complement:
  • 14 officers and 121 crewmen in peacetime;
  • 166 or 183 men in wartime
Armament:
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

References
  1. "La bataille de Koh Chang (janvier 1941)" (in French). NetMarine.net. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
  2. Labayle Couhat, Jean. French Warships of World War II . ISBN 0-7110-0153-7. OCLC 1145256109.

Bibliography
  • 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 2007. London: Conway. pp. 8–29. ISBN 978-1-84486-326-6.
  • Le Masson, Henri (1969). The French Navy. Navies of the Second World War. 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.


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