Commandant Rivière-class frigate
Escort Commandant Bourdais on the Seine River in July 1989 | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Commandant Rivière class |
| Builders | Arsenal de Lorient |
| Operators | |
| Preceded by | Le Normand class |
| Succeeded by | D'Estienne d'Orves class |
| Subclasses | João Belo class |
| In commission | 1962–1991 |
| Completed | 9 |
| Laid up | 1 (Uruguay) |
| Retired | 6 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Frigate |
| Displacement | 1,750 tons standard, 2,230 tons full load |
| Length | |
| Beam | 11.5 m (37 ft 9 in) |
| Draught | 4.3 m (14 ft 1 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph) |
| Range | 7,500 nmi (13,900 km; 8,600 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 2 × LCP landing craft |
| Complement | 166 |
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The Commandant Rivière class was a class of frigates built for the French Navy in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Labeled "aviso-escorteur" (fr: "sloop-escort"), they were designed to perform the role of overseas patrol in peacetime and anti-submarine escort in wartime. This vessel class is named after the French Navy officer Henri Rivière (1827–1883).
Four similar ships were built for the Portuguese Navy as the João Belo class.