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Dumont D`Urville 1941

Ships

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

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1969
Displacement full, t	2600
Length, m	98.0 pp 103.7 oa
Breadth, m	12.7
Draught, m	4.50
No of shafts	2
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
Power, h. p.	3200
Max speed, kts	15.5
Fuel, t	diesel oil 297
Endurance, nm(kts)	9000(10)
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
Complement	183

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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.