French aviso Rigault de Genouilly
Rigault de Genouilly in 1938 | |
Career (France) | French Navy |
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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 m (340 ft) |
Beam: | 12.7 m (42 ft) |
Draft: | 4.5 m (15 ft) |
Propulsion: | 2 Diesel engines 3,200 |
Speed: | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
Armament: | 3 × 138mm guns model 1927 (single mountings) 4 × 37mm AA guns (single mountings) 6 × 13.2 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]
References
- ↑ "Allied Warships of WWII - Submarine HMS Pandora". uboat.net. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
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