French ship Foudre (L9011)
 Foudre at Toulon | |
| Career (France) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | Foudre |
| Namesake: | Lightning |
| Operator: | Marine Nationale |
| Builder: | DCN, Brest |
| Laid down: | 26 March 1986 |
| Launched: | 19 November 1988 |
| Commissioned: | 7 December 1990 |
| Decommissioned: | December 2011 |
| Homeport: | Toulon |
| Identification: | L 9011 |
| Fate: | Transferred to the Chilean Navy in December 2011 |
| Career (Chile) |  |
| Name: | Sargento Aldea |
| Namesake: | Sergeant Juan de Dios Aldea Fonseca[1] |
| Acquired: | 23 December 2011 |
| Homeport: | Valparaiso |
| Identification: | LSDH-91 |
| Status: | In active service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Foudre-class landing platform dock |
| Displacement: | 11,300 tonnes (standard) 12,000 tonnes (full load) |
| Length: | 168 m (551 ft) |
| Beam: | 23.5 m (77 ft) |
| Draught: | 5.2 m (17 ft) |
| Installed power: | 20,800 hp (15,290 kW) |
| Propulsion: | Engines: 2 SEMT Pielstick 16 PC 2.5 V400 diesels Propellers: 2 adjustable-blade propellers and one beam propeller |
| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h) |
| Range: | 20,300 km at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Boats and landing craft carried: | 8 landing crafts |
| Capacity: | 150-man command headquarters |
| Troops: | 450 (900 for a short cruise) |
| Crew: | 20 officers 80 petty officers |
| Armament: | 3 Simbad systems 3 30 mm Breda-Mauser guns |
| Aircraft carried: | 4 helicopters |
| Aviation facilities: | Hangar |
Foudre was an amphibious assault ship of the Marine Nationale, the twelfth vessel to bear the name, and lead ship of the Foudre-class landing platform docks. In December 2011 the vessel was sold to the Chilean Navy and renamed Sargento Aldea.
Service history
Marine Nationale
Foudre served during the war in Yugoslavia, and was the central element of Operation Licorne in Côte d'Ivoire.
On 17 January 2009, one of Foudre's helicopters crashed off the coast of Gabon, killing eight French military personnel.
Sale and Chilean Navy service
In October 2011 it was announced that Chile and France had finalized negotiations for sale of Foudre to Chile for around USD80 million.[2] She was transferred to Chile on 23 December 2011 and renamed Sargento Aldea.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "LSDH 91 "Sargento Aldea"". Armada de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 October 2014.
- ↑ "Chile; Navy decides on ex-French LSD vessel". Defence Market Intelligence. 8 October 2011. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
External links
- (French) TCD Foudre TCD Foudre
See Also
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Foudre (L 9011). |
| ||||||||||||||||||