Model of D'Entrecasteaux Musée de la Marine de Paris |
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Career (France) | French Navy |
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Name: | D'Entrecasteaux |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Bougainville class aviso |
Displacement: | 1,970 tonnes |
Length: | 103.7 metres |
Beam: | 12.7 metres |
Draft: | 4.5 metres |
Propulsion: | 2 Diesel engines 3,200 |
Speed: | 17 knots |
Armament: | 3 x 138mm guns model 1927 (single mountings) 4x37mm AA guns (single mountings) 6x13.2 mm machine guns capable of carrying 50 mines |
D'Entrecasteaux was an Bougainville-class aviso of the French Navy launched in 1931. The ship was designed to operate from French colonies in Asia and Africa.
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