| Career (France) | French Navy |
|---|---|
| Name: | Rigault de Genouilly |
| Namesake: | Rigault de Genouilly |
| Launched: | 18 September 1932 |
| 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 |
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 the Rigault de Genouilly was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine HMS Pandora off the Algerian coast.[1]
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