LA GRANDIÉRE (L9034)

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LA GRANDIÉRE (L9034)

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue Feb 13, 2018 8:06 pm

Built as a small transport ship by Chantiers Normandie Grand Queville Francais des Quest, Rouen for the French Navy.
27 August 1984 laid down.
11 December 1985 launched as the La GRANDIÉRE (L 9034) named after the French Vice Admiral Pierre-Paul de La Grandiére. She is one of the Champlain class.
Displacement 770 ton, full load 1,330 ton. Dim. 80 x 13 x 3m. (draught).
Powered by two SACM Wärtsilä UD 33 V 12 M4 diesel engines, 3,600 hp, (2,650 kW), twin pitch propellers, speed 16 knots maximum, during patrols 13 knots.
Range 4,500 mile by a speed of 13 knots.
This yard was closed so most probably fitted out by another yard. Miramar gives that she was built by Francais de L’Quest in St Nazaire.
Armament: 2 – 81mm mortars, 2 – 20mm type F2 and 2 -12.7 MG.
Can carry 400 ton or one company of 3 off, 15 petty off. and 118 men.
One LCVP and one LCPS landing vessel, and a landing platform for a helicopter.
Crew: 44.
21 January 1987 completed.

Based at Pointe des Galets, Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. She was used for maritime surveillance operations in the Indian Ocean.
19 May 2016 she sailed for France, made calls at Cape Town, Boma (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Dakar and Lisbon and arrived on 11 July 2016 in Brest.
The same year decommissioned and waiting dismantling in Brest.

Source : Mr. Jean-Louis Araignon. http://www.netmarine.net/bat/batral/lag ... racter.htm. Wikipedia and Miramar.
TAAF 2018 1.70 Euro sg?, scott?
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