The frigate, one of the F 67 design was built by Arsenal Lorient for the French Navy.
25 February 1971 laid down.
01 June 1973 launched as the DUGUAY-TROUIN (D 611) one of the Tourville class.
Displacement 4,580 ton standard, 6.100 ton full load. Dim. 152.8 x 15.3 x 5.7m. (draught)
Powered by two Rateau double reduction steam turbines, 58,000 hp, twin shafts, speed 32 knots.
Range by a speed of 18 knots, 4,500 mile.
Armament: 2 – 100mm, 2 – 20mm guns, 4 – 12.7mm MG. 1 Crotale EDIR system launcher with 8 missiles. 6 – Exocet MM 38 anti-ship missiles launchers. 2 – L5 torpedo launchers, carried 10 torpedoes.
Crew 25 officers and 278 crew.
17 September 1975 commissioned. Based at Brest.
After commissioned she was a unit of the Atlantic Squadron based in Brest.
Before she was decommissioned she made a round the world voyage with the helicopter carrier JEANNE D’ARC returning in Brest on 09 April 1999.
13 July 1999 decommissioned.
Then after she was disarmed her empty hull was used as an embankment near the French Naval Academy in Lanvéoc-Poulmic until 2014.
August 2014 she left from there bound for Brest to be prepared for dismantling.
2016 As shown on this photo: http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/pho ... id=2433570 she is at the French Navel Graveyard at Landévennec waiting for scrapping.
France 1976 1f sg2122, scott? (She is the vessel on the right.)
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