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.

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

Rigault de Genouilly
Rigault de Genouilly in 1938
History
France
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)
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. "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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