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L'AUDACIEUSE patrol craft (1986 - 1988)


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L'Audacieuse 2002

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
L'Audacieuse P682   CMN, Cherbourg 11.4.1983 21.3.1984 10.9.1986 stricken 6.2010
La Boudeuse P683   CMN, Cherbourg 15.6.1983 21.5.1984 25.7.1986 stricken 9.2010
La Capricieuse P684   CMN, Cherbourg 12.9.1983 31.10.1984 26.9.1986 stricken 2017
La Fougeuse P685   CMN, Cherbourg 25.11.1983 17.12.1984 19.2.1987 stricken 9.2009
La Glorieuse P686   CMN, Cherbourg 21.2.1984 25.1.1985 25.3.1987 in service (2019)
La Gracieuse P687   CMN, Cherbourg 26.4.1984 26.3.1985 17.7.1987 stricken 2017
La Moqueuse P688   CMN, Cherbourg 4.10.1984 8.4.1986 25.3.1987 in service (2019)
La Railleuse P689   CMN, Cherbourg 27.12.1984 2.9.1986 16.5.1987 stricken 8.2011
La Rieuse P690   CMN, Cherbourg 14.3.1985 17.10.1986 13.6.1987 to Kenya 6.2011 (Harambee)
La Tapageuse P691   CMN, Cherbourg 13.8.1985 16.2.1987 24.2.1988 retired 11.2013,


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

373
Displacement full, t

480
Length, m

50.0 pp 54.5 oa
Breadth, m

7.70 wl 8.00 deck
Draught, m

2.54
No of shafts

2
Machinery

2 SEMT-Pielstick 16 PA4 V200 VGDS diesels
Power, h. p.

8000
Max speed, kts

23
Fuel, t

diesel oil 73
Endurance, nm(kts)

4200(15)
Armament

1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 7, 1 x 1 - 20/90 F2, 2 x 1 - 7.6/90
Electronic equipment

DRBN-32 radar
Complement

29 + 20 passengers


Standard scale images


<i>La Capricieuse </i>2000
La Capricieuse 2000
<i>L'Audaciouse </i>1986
L'Audaciouse 1986


Graphics


<i>L'Audacieuse </i>2002
L'Audacieuse 2002


Project history

An improved class of patrouilleurs designed for overseas service. They are altogether larger and more seaworthy than their predecessors of the Trident class. Four units were originally to have been part of the Force de Service Public under the designation SP 400, and were to have been fitted with fire-ftghting, search-and-rescue, and anti-pollution equipment. This project was abandoned, and all units were built identical. The programme was delayed by propulsion problems experienced with the first ship. In order to minimise infrared emissions the exhaust gases from the diesels were discharged underwater, and the escape valves were found to admit water at high temperatures. In 1990 L'Audacieuse was given conventional twin funnels to resolve the problem, and this modification has till 2000 been extended to all other units of the class.

Two large 35m³ holds, served by a hydraulic crane, are provided to enable these vessels to transport equipment and stores between the overseas islands, and there is accommodation for twenty passengers. Provision was made for the addition of two Exocet missiles and a fire control radar, and La Glorieuse earned out trials of a Thomson-CSF VDS-12 sonar in 1985.

Modernizations

2000s, all: - DRBN-32 radar; + DRBN-38 radar

Naval service

No significant events.