French frigate Ventôse (F733)
![]() Frigate Ventôse | |
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Name: | Ventôse |
Namesake: | Month of Ventôse |
Ordered: | 1989 |
Builder: | Chantiers de l'Atlantique |
Laid down: | 28 June 1991 |
Launched: | 14 March 1992 |
Commissioned: | 5 May 1993 |
Homeport: | Fort de France, Martinique |
Status: | in service |
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) |
Propulsion: | Engines : 4 diesel SEMT Pielstick 6PA6 L280 Auxiliaries : 1 Ulstein 200 kW beam propulsor |
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 Ventôse is a light monitoring frigate ("frégate de surveillance") of the French Marine Nationale. She is the fourth ship of her class, and the first French vessel named after Ventôse, the 5th month of the Republican Calendar. She was used in the French response to Hurricane Katrina.
The Ventôse took part in the recovery operation for the Air France Flight 447 which crashed some 960 kilometres off the northeast coast of Brazil on 1 June 2009.[1]
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References
- ↑ BBC Mundo.Rescatados 17 cuerpos en el océano Accessed 8 June 2009.
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