| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Latouche-Tréville |
| Laid down: | 15 February 1984 |
| Launched: | 19 March 1988 |
| Commissioned: | 16 July 1990 |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Georges Leygues-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 3,550 t (3,494 long tons) 4,500 t (4,429 long tons) full load |
| Length: | 139 m (456 ft 0 in) |
| Beam: | 14 m (45 ft 11 in) |
| Height: | 39.36 m (129 ft 2 in) |
| Draught: | 5.8 m (19 ft 0 in) |
| Propulsion: | CODOG 2 × Pielstick PA 6 V280 STD diesels, 5,200 hp (3,878 kW) 2 × Rolls Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines, 26,000 hp (19,388 kW) 2 shafts with 4-blade controllable pitch propellers |
| Speed: | 30 knots (35 mph; 56 km/h) on gas turbines 21 knots (24 mph; 39 km/h) on diesels |
| Range: | 1,000 nmi (1,900 km) at 30 kn (35 mph; 56 km/h) on gas turbines 10,000 nmi (19,000 km) at 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h) on diesels |
| Complement: | 20 officers 120 non-commissioned officers 95 men |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Detection: • 1 Air/surface sentry radar DRBV51C • 1 Air sentry radar DRBV 26 • 1 Fire control radar DRBC 32E • 2 Navigation radar KH 1007 • 1 Hull sonar DUBV 23 • 1 Towed sonar DUBV 43C Tactical information: • SENIT 4 • SEAO/OPSMER |
| Electronic warfare and decoys: |
• 2 Radar interceptors ARBR 16 • 2 × Syllex chaff launchers |
| Armament: | Anti-air: • 1 × Crotale EDIR system - 8 missiles on launcher + 18 stored • 2 × Simbad systems - 2×2 Mistral missiles • 1 × CADAM 100 mm main gun • 2 × 20 mm guns • 4 × 12.7 mm machine guns Anti-surface: • 4 × Exocet MM38 missiles Anti-submarine: • 10 × L5 Mod4 torpedoes • 2 × L5 torpedo launchers |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 × Lynx WG13 Mk.4 helicopters, each with: • 1 × DUAV4 sonar • Rheseda system for transmission of acoustic data • 12 × Mark 46 torpedoes |
Latouche-Tréville is a F70 type anti-submarine frigate of the French Marine Nationale. She is the third French vessel named after the 18-19th century politician and admiral Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville.
Note: The French navy does not use the term "destroyer" for its ships. Thus, some large ships, referred to as "frigates", are registered as destroyers.
In November 2006 and again in June 2010, Latouche Treville visited London on diplomatic duties, and was moored alongside the Second World War cruiser, HMS Belfast. In the autumn of 2009, while attached to an international force of NATO vessels, Latouche Treville visited Portsmouth Naval Base, UK, with vessels of the Dutch, Norwegian, Spanish and Turkish navies.