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FRANCIS GARNIER 1st class aviso (1937 / 1948)

Francis Garnier 1960

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Francis Garnier (ex-Eritrea) A04, 1950- F730   Cantieri di Castellammare di Stabia, Italy 7.1935 28.9.1936 2.1937 // 12.2.1948 stricken 1966
  

Displacement standard, t

2165

Displacement full, t

3068

Length, m

87.0 pp 96.9 oa

Breadth, m

13.3

Draught, m

3.50 normal load 4.70 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Fiat diesels / 2 diesel-generators, 2 Marelli electric motors

Power, h. p.

7800 + 1300 = 9100

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

diesel oil 320

Endurance, nm(kts) 6950(11.8)

Armament

2 x 2 - 120/45 Schneider-Canet-Armstrong 1918-19, 2 x 2 - 37/54 Breda 1938, 2 x 2 - 20/65 Breda 1935

Electronic equipment presumably radar

Complement

234

Project history: Former Italian colonial sloop, transferred under the Peace Treaty and commissioned as 1st class aviso.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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