French frigate Floréal (F730)
 Floréal in Bora-Bora | |
| Career (France) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | Floréal |
| Namesake: | Month of Floréal |
| Ordered: | 1989 |
| Builder: | Chantiers de l'Atlantique |
| Laid down: | 2 April 1990 |
| Launched: | 6 October 1990 |
| Commissioned: | 27 May 1992 |
| Homeport: | Port des Galets, La Réunion |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Floréal-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 2600 tonnes (2950 tonnes full load) |
| Length: | 93.50 m (306.8 ft) |
| Beam: | 14 m (46 ft) |
| Draught: | 4.40 m (14.4 ft) |
| Installed power: | 4 × SEMT Pielstick 6PA6 L280 (6,470 kW (8,680 hp)) |
| Propulsion: | Two shafts; Lips controllable pitch propellers Ulstein bow thruster (200 kW) |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Range: | 10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) 13,000 nautical miles (24,000 km; 15,000 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Boats and landing craft carried: | ETN 90 (Embarcation de Transport en Nombre) Zodiac Hurricane 530 OB with two Yamaha 2T 140 CV VETOL engines |
| Complement: | 11 officers 36 non-commissioned officers |
| Sensors and processing systems: | Radar:
Navigation
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| Electronic warfare and decoys: | ARBG-1A Saïgon 2 Dagaie decoy systems |
| Armament: | 2 Exocet MM38 missiles 1 × 100 mm CADAM turret with Najir fire control system |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 Panther helicopter |
The Floréal is a small monitoring frigate ("frégate de surveillance") of the French Marine Nationale. She is the lead ship of her class, and the first French vessel named after the 8th month of the Republican Calendar.
In 1993, she took part in United Nations Operation in Somalia II to protect Blue Helmets. In 1995, she took part in the capture of Bob Denard in the Comoros. She also took part in the Action of 9 April 2009.
Her usual mission is monitoring of the Exclusive Economic Zone in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
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