AUGUSTE BENEBIG (P770)
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2024 8:33 pm
Built as a patrol vessel by Socarenam, Boulogne-sur-Mer for the French Navy,
2021 keel laid down.
15 October 2021 launched as the AUGUSTE BENEBIG P779, the first of her class.
Displacement 1.300 ton full load. Dim. 79.9 x 11.8 x 3.5m (Draught).
Powered, diesel electric, hp?, speed 24 knots. Range 5,500 miles at 12 knots.
Crew 30.
Armament:
1 x 20 mm remote controlled cannon.
2 x 12.7 mm machine guns.
2 x 7.62 mm machine guns.
Aircraft, Airbus Aliaca Drone.
25 July 2023 commissioned.
The AUGUSTE BENEBIG (hull number P779) is a patrol boat of the French Navy launched in 2021. Named after Auguste Bénébig , companion of the Liberation , she is the lead ship of her class . She has been based in Nouméa since April 2023.
The first steel of the AUGUTE BENEBIG was cut in Saint Malo on October 8, 2020 in the presence of Minister Florence Parly
The hull then was fitted out at Boulogne-sur-Mer , where she was officially launched on October 15, 2021
The ceremony of taking on arms for testing takes place on April 30, 2022 , then the patrol boat is on trial at the end of the month ofJuly 2022, before joining the Brest naval base on the 31st of this month, where the final work is carried out and where its crew trains until its departure for its mission zone At the beginning of December 2022, it conducts several tests of the SMDM micro-drone.
The ship left Brest on January 17, 2023 to reach New Caledonia. It stopped over from January 22 to 25 in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria), then arrived in Fort de France in the Antilles on February 6, for a stopover until February 11. After transiting the Panama Canal, it stopped over in Papeete from March 14 to 20, then in Wallis on March 26. On April 3, 2023, it arrived at its home port, Nouméa . Intended to replace La GLORIEUSE, she was officially received by the Directorate General of Armament on May 5, 2023 , then admitted to active service in Noumea on July 25, 2023
On August 10, it participated in the OGURI-VERNY exercise with the Japanese LHD SHIMOKITA, then from August 28 to September 1 in the CAGOU 23 exercise with the frigate VENDEMIAIRE and the support vessel D'ENTRECASTEAUX. On October 17, the AUGUSTE BENEBIG left its base in Noumea for its first operational mission, with stopovers planned in the Samoa and Tonga islands.
From 19 to 21 February 2024, it participated in exercise CAGOU 24 with the surveillance frigate VENDEMIAIRE and the BSAOM D'ENTRECASTEAUX . From 23 February to 28 March, it was deployed in the permanent area of responsibility of the senior commander of the FANC. During this deployment, it stopped over from 28 February to 3 March at the Cairns naval base in Australia. It then headed to Papua New Guinea. It participated in the Rai Balang 24 fisheries control operation from 4 to 15 March. It returned to Noumea on 26 March.
On 27 and 28 April, it carried out a hydrographic mission around the island of Maré.
2024 In service.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_B ... rouilleur) (Google translated.)
New Caledonia 2024
2021 keel laid down.
15 October 2021 launched as the AUGUSTE BENEBIG P779, the first of her class.
Displacement 1.300 ton full load. Dim. 79.9 x 11.8 x 3.5m (Draught).
Powered, diesel electric, hp?, speed 24 knots. Range 5,500 miles at 12 knots.
Crew 30.
Armament:
1 x 20 mm remote controlled cannon.
2 x 12.7 mm machine guns.
2 x 7.62 mm machine guns.
Aircraft, Airbus Aliaca Drone.
25 July 2023 commissioned.
The AUGUSTE BENEBIG (hull number P779) is a patrol boat of the French Navy launched in 2021. Named after Auguste Bénébig , companion of the Liberation , she is the lead ship of her class . She has been based in Nouméa since April 2023.
The first steel of the AUGUTE BENEBIG was cut in Saint Malo on October 8, 2020 in the presence of Minister Florence Parly
The hull then was fitted out at Boulogne-sur-Mer , where she was officially launched on October 15, 2021
The ceremony of taking on arms for testing takes place on April 30, 2022 , then the patrol boat is on trial at the end of the month ofJuly 2022, before joining the Brest naval base on the 31st of this month, where the final work is carried out and where its crew trains until its departure for its mission zone At the beginning of December 2022, it conducts several tests of the SMDM micro-drone.
The ship left Brest on January 17, 2023 to reach New Caledonia. It stopped over from January 22 to 25 in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria), then arrived in Fort de France in the Antilles on February 6, for a stopover until February 11. After transiting the Panama Canal, it stopped over in Papeete from March 14 to 20, then in Wallis on March 26. On April 3, 2023, it arrived at its home port, Nouméa . Intended to replace La GLORIEUSE, she was officially received by the Directorate General of Armament on May 5, 2023 , then admitted to active service in Noumea on July 25, 2023
On August 10, it participated in the OGURI-VERNY exercise with the Japanese LHD SHIMOKITA, then from August 28 to September 1 in the CAGOU 23 exercise with the frigate VENDEMIAIRE and the support vessel D'ENTRECASTEAUX. On October 17, the AUGUSTE BENEBIG left its base in Noumea for its first operational mission, with stopovers planned in the Samoa and Tonga islands.
From 19 to 21 February 2024, it participated in exercise CAGOU 24 with the surveillance frigate VENDEMIAIRE and the BSAOM D'ENTRECASTEAUX . From 23 February to 28 March, it was deployed in the permanent area of responsibility of the senior commander of the FANC. During this deployment, it stopped over from 28 February to 3 March at the Cairns naval base in Australia. It then headed to Papua New Guinea. It participated in the Rai Balang 24 fisheries control operation from 4 to 15 March. It returned to Noumea on 26 March.
On 27 and 28 April, it carried out a hydrographic mission around the island of Maré.
2024 In service.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_B ... rouilleur) (Google translated.)
New Caledonia 2024