- Tourville class frigate
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Destroyer De GrasseClass overview Name: F67 Succeeded by: FREMM multipurpose frigate Completed: 3 Active: 1 Retired: 2 General characteristics Type: Destroyer Displacement: 4,580 tonnes
6,100 tonnes fully loadedLength: 152.75 m Beam: 15.80 m Draught: 6.60 m Propulsion: 2 Rateau steam turbines, double reduction
Power : 58,000 hp (42 MW)
4 multitubular boilers
Fuel: Gazoil
Propellers : 2 fixed propellersSpeed: 32 knots (59 km/h) Range: 1900 nautical miles (3500 km) at 30 knots (56 km/h)
4500 nautical miles (8300 km) and 18 knots (33 km/h)Complement: 24 officers
115 men
160 non-commissioned officersSensors and
processing systems:1 DRBV 51B surface sentry radar
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1 DRBV 26A air sentry radar
1 DRBC 32D targeting radar
2 DRBN 34 navigation radars
1 DUBV 23 hull sonar
1 ETBF DSBV 62C sonar
1 DSBX 1 tugged sonar
1 Syva torpedo alert system SENIT 3
SEAO/OPSMER
HF, UHF, VHF and SHF liaison systems
Syracuse 2
InmarsatElectronic warfare
and decoys:1 ARBB 32 jammer
bubble belt
1 ARBR 16 radar interceptor
2 Syllex decoy launchersArmament: Anti-ship;
- 6 × Exocet MM38 anti-ship missiles
Anti-submarine;
- 2 × L5 torpedo launchers, 10 torpedoes on board (L5 mod 4)
Guns;
- 2 × 100 mm turrets (1968 model)
- 2 × 20 mm cannons
- 4 × 12.7 mm machine guns
CIWS;
- 1 x Crotale EDIR CIWS anti-air missiles (8 missiles on launcher, 16 in magazine)
Aircraft carried: - 2 x Lynx WG13 anti-ship helicopters
The F67 type is a class of large high-sea (Blue water) Destroyers of the French Navy specialised in anti-submarine warfare. They have anti-air and anti-surface capabilities.
Between 1994 and 1996, the Tourville and the De Grasse were refitted with the modern SLASM anti-submarine system, an active Very Low Frequencies sonar
Design
The ships are an enlarged version of the F65 class frigate Aconit. They have two shaft steam turbine machinery and a double hangar for two Lynx helicopters. They were the first ships fitted with the marine version of the Crotale surface to air missile system. A Malafon anti submarine missile system was fitted when the ships were built but this was removed during refits in the late 1980s
Ships
The three ships of the class, D612 De Grasse, D611 Duguay-Trouin and the D610 Tourville, are named after famous French sailors.
The three ships of the class were all built by Arsenal de Lorient
Pennant number Ship Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Status D610 Tourville 13 May 1972 21 June 1974 16 June 2011 Laid Up D611 Duguay-Trouin 1 June 1973 17 September 1975 13 July 1999 Disequiped, in use as a breakwater D612 De Grasse 30 November 1974 1 October 1977 In Service References
- Conway's All the world's fighting Ships 1947-1995
Equipment of the French NavyNaval Action Force P400 · BATRAL · EDAR · EDIC · CDIC · Tripartite · Durance · A69 · Tourville · Georges Leygues · Cassard · Floréal · La Fayette · Foudre · Mistral · Aquitaine class multipurpose frigate · Horizon · Charles de Gaulle · PA 2
Submarine Forces
Strategic Oceanic ForceNaval aviation Breguet Atlantic · Super Étendard · Hawkeye · Falcon 10 · Rafale · Super Frelon · Dauphin · Panther · Lynx · NH90
Tourville-class frigateCategories:- Destroyer classes
- Frigate classes
- Tourville class frigates
- Cold War frigates of France
- Active frigates of France
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