Amiral Charner 1940
Beautemps-Beaupré as planned
Dumont D'Urville 1954
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comm | Fate |
| Dumont D`Urville | A02, 1950- F732 | A C Maritime du Sud Ouest, Bordeaux | 1927 | 21.3.1931 | 1932 | sold 3.1958 | |
| Bougainville | F C de la Gironde, Bordeaux | 1927 | 21.4.1931 | 1932 | sunk 9.11.1940 | ||
| Savorgnan de Brazza | A03, 1950- F733 | A C Maritime du Sud Ouest, Bordeaux | 1928 | 18.6.1931 | 1932 | FNFL 1940, sold 3.1957 | |
| D`Entrecasteaux | A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc | 1928 | 22.6.1931 | 1933 | damaged 12.1942, never repaired | ||
| Rigault de Genouilly | F C de la Gironde, Bordeaux | 1930 | 18.9.1932 | 1933 | sunk 4.7.1940 | ||
| Amiral Charner | A C Maritime du Sud Ouest, Bordeaux | 1930 | 1.10.1932 | 1933 | scuttled 10.3.1945 | ||
| D`Iberville | A C Maritime du Sud Ouest, Bordeaux | 1930 | 23.9.1934 | 1935 | scuttled 27.11.1942 | ||
| Ville D`Ys, 4.1940- La Grandière | A01, 1950- F731 | A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc | 1937 | 22.6.1939 | 1940 | FNFL, sold 11.1959 | |
| Beautemps-Beaupré | F C de la Gironde, Bordeaux | 1937 | 20.6.1939 | --- | scuttled incomplete 24.6.1940 | ||
| Lapérouse | F C de la Gironde, Bordeaux | 1938 | --- | --- | cancelled 1940 |
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Displacement standard, t |
1969 |
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Displacement full, t |
2600 |
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Length, m |
98.0 pp 103.7 oa |
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Breadth, m |
12.7 |
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Draught, m |
4.50 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
Dumont D`Urville, Savorgnan de Brazza, D`Iberville, Ville D`Ys: 2 Sulzer diesels Bougainville, D`Entrecasteaux, Rigault de Genouilly, Amiral Charner, Beautemps Beaupré, La Pérouse: 2 Burmeister & Wain diesels |
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Power, h. p. |
3200 |
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Max speed, kts |
15.5 |
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Fuel, t |
diesel oil 297 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 9000(10) |
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Armament |
Dumont D`Urville, Bougainville, Savorgnan de Brazza, D`Entrecasteaux, Rigault de Genouilly, Amiral Charner, D`Iberville: 3 x 1 - 139/40 M1927, 4 x 1 - 37/50 M1925, 6 x 1 - 8.80, 50 mines, 1 seaplane (GL.832) La Grandière: 3 x 1 - 139/40 M1927, 4 x 1 - 37/50 M1925, 6 x 1 - 8.80, 50 mines, 1 seaplane (GL.832, Potez 452) Beautemps Beaupré, La Pérouse: 3 x 2 - 100/45 M1933, 2 x 2 - 37/50 M1933, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 50 mines |
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Complement |
183 |
Project history: Built under 1927 (2 ships), 1928 (2), 1930(3), 1937(2) and 1938(1 ship) programs as alternative to cruisers for service in colonies where they should fulfil functions of command ships, demonstrate flag, etc. In this connection they were adapted for service in tropics. CT and gun mounts had splinter protection.
Bulding of La Pérouse was cancelled, and Beautemps-Beaupré, 84%-available, was scuttled at outfitting yard at approach of German troops 24.6.1940. On trials ships made from 17.2 (Dumont D`Urville) to 18.9 (Amiral Charner) kts.
Modernizations: 1940, Savorgnan de Brazza: - seaplane; + 1 x 2 - 37/50 M1933
1941, Dumont D`Urville: - seaplane; + 4 x 1 - 37/50 M1925, 2 x 1 - 25/60 M1938, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 2 x 1 - 8.80
1944, D`Entrecasteaux: - 4 x 1 - 8.80; + 6 x 1 - 13.2/76
1944, Dumont D`Urville: - 8 x 1 - 37/50, 2 x 1 - 25/60 M1938, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 8 x 1 - 8.80; + 1 x 4 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 11 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (66), SA, SF radars, QJA sonar
1944, La Grandière: - 4 x 1 - 37/50, 6 x 1 - 8.80, seaplane; + 1 x 4 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 11 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (66), SA, SF radars, QJA sonar
1944, Savorgnan de Brazza: - 6 x 1 - 8.80; + 1 x 2 - 37/50 M1933, 3 x 1 - 25/60 M1938, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (66), SA, SF radars, QJA sonar
Naval service: Bougainville, served under Vichy flag, was sunk at Libreville by Gaullist Savorgnan de Brazza 9.11.1940. Rigault de Genouilly was sunk by British submarine Pandora at Oran (Algeria) 4.7.1940 in operation "Catapult". D`Entrecasteaux was hard damaged in 1942 at occupancy of Madagascar by British surface ships and never commissioned again. Amiral Charner and Dumont D`Urville participated in the French-Thai war and were scuttled 10.3.1945 in Indochina to avoid capture by Japanese.
Dumont D`Urville 1941
Dumont D`Urville 1945
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