Bougainville-class aviso
Rigault de Genouilly in 1938 | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Bougainville class |
| Operators | French Navy |
| Subclasses | Beautemps-Beaupré |
| Built | 1929–1939 |
| In commission | 1933–1959 |
| Planned | 10 |
| Completed | 8 |
| Cancelled | 1 |
| Lost | 5 |
| Scrapped | 4 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Type | Aviso |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 103.7 m (340 ft 3 in) (o/a) |
| Beam | 12.7 m (41 ft 8 in) |
| Draught | 4.15 m (13 ft 7 in) |
| Installed power | 4,200 or 4,382 PS (3,089 or 3,223 kW; 4,143 or 4,322 bhp) |
| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 diesel engines |
| Speed | 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph) |
| Range | 9,000 nmi (17,000 km; 10,000 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Complement | 14 officers and 121 crewmen |
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| Aircraft carried | 1 seaplane |
The Bougainville class was a group of colonial avisos, or sloops, built for the French Navy during the 1930s. They were designed to operate in the remote locations of the French Empire.