Frigate class
Bougainville-class aviso
Bougainville class
The class in numbers
- 10 Planned
- 9 Completed
- 1 Cancelled
- 5 Lost
- 4 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Frigate
- Built
- 1929–1939
- In commission
- 1933–1959
- Subclasses
- Beautemps-Beaupré
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,938 long tons (1,969 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,559 long tons (2,600 t)
- Length
- 103.7 m (340.2 ft) OA
- Speed
- 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h, 17.8 mph)
- Complement
- 135
- Main gun
- 139 mm (5.5 in)
- Armament
- 3 × single 138.6 mm guns
- 4 × single 37 mm AA guns
- 4 × twin 8 mm machine guns
- 50 × mines
Sources
- Facts harvested from Bougainville-class aviso on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.