Commandant Bory (F726) was a Commandant Rivière-class frigate in the French Navy.
 Commandant Bory
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| History | |
|---|---|
 France | |
| Name | Commandant Bory |
| Namesake | Victor Bory |
| Builder | Arsenal de Lorient, Lorient |
| Laid down | May 1958 |
| Launched | 11 October 1958 |
| Commissioned | 5 March 1964 |
| Decommissioned | 1 September 1996 |
| Identification | Pennant number: F726 |
| Fate | Sunk as target, 2004 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Commandant Rivière-class frigate |
| Displacement | |
| 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 |
| Sensors and processing systems |
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| Armament |
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Development and design
editDesigned to navigate overseas, the escort escorts were fully air-conditioned, resulting in appreciated comfort, which was far from being the case for other contemporary naval vessels.
A posting on a Aviso-escort was a boarding sought after by sailors because it was a guarantee of campaigning overseas and visiting the country.
Four other similar units were built at Ateliers et Chantiers de Bretagne (ACB) in Nantes for the Portuguese Navy under the class name João Belo.[1]
All French units were decommissioned in the mid-1990s. Three ships were sold to the Uruguayan Navy.[2][3]
In 1984, Commandant Rivière underwent a redesign to become an experimentation building. It will retain only a single triple platform of 550mm anti-submarine torpedo tubes and all the rest of the armament was landed, replaced by a single 40mm anti-aircraft gun and two 12.7mm machine guns.
Construction and career
editCommandant Bory was laid down in May 1958 at Arsenal de Lorient, Lorient. Launched on 11 October 1958 and commissioned on 5 March 1964.
In 1979, she underwent refit.
She was decommissioned on 1 September 1996, she served from 1996 to 2004 as a breakwater in Brest.[4][5]
The ship was sunk as a target in 2004.
Citations
edit- ^ "Navires". Mer et Marine (in French). Archived from the original on 18 September 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
- ^ Gardiner and Chumbley 1995, p. 117.
- ^ "Aviso-escorteur Commandant Rivière". netmarine.net (in French). Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ^ Baker 1998, p. 223.
- ^ "FS COMMANDANT BORY F726 - ShipSpotting.com - Ship Photos and Ship Tracker". www.shipspotting.com. Retrieved 17 September 2021.