French aviso Rigault de Genouilly

Rigault de Genouilly was a Bougainville-class aviso of the French Navy. The ship was designed to operate from French colonies in Asia and Africa. On 4 July 1940 Rigault de Genouilly was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine HMS Pandora off the Algerian coast.[1] The day before she had been damaged during the British attack on Mers-el-Kébir.

Model of sister ship D'Entrecasteaux at the Musée de la Marine de Paris

Rigault de Genouilly

Rigault de Genouilly in 1938
History
France
Name:	Rigault de Genouilly
Namesake:	Rigault de Genouilly
Launched:	18 September 1932
Fate:	sunk 4 July 1940
General characteristics
Type:	Bougainville-class aviso
Displacement:	1,969 t (1,938 long tons) (standard) 2,600 t (2,600 long tons) (full load)
Length:	103.7 m (340 ft 3 in) (o/a)
Beam:	12.7 m (41 ft 8 in)
Draught:	4.15 m (13 ft 7 in)
Installed power:	2,191 PS (1,611 kW; 2,161 bhp)
Propulsion:	2 shafts; 2 diesel engines
Speed:	15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph)
Range:	9,000 nmi (17,000 km; 10,000 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement:	14 officers and 121 crewmen in peacetime; 166 or 183 men in wartime
Armament:	3 × single 138.6 mm (5.5 in) guns 4 × single 37 mm (1.5 in) AA guns 3 × twin 13.2 mm (0.52 in) machine guns 50 × mines
Armour:	Hull: 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) Deck: 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) Gun shields: 3 mm (0.1 in)
Aircraft carried:	1 × Gourdou-Leseurre GL-832 HY floatplane

References

1. "Allied Warships of WWII - Submarine HMS Pandora". uboat.net. Archived from the original on 19 June 2010. Retrieved 5 January 2012.

Bibliography

• Jordan, John (2016). "The Colonial Sloops of the Bougainville Class". Warship 2007. London: Conway. pp. 8–29. ISBN 978-1-84486-326-6.