French aviso Amiral Charner
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Name | Amiral Charner |
Namesake | Admiral Léonard Charner |
Launched | 7 October 1932 |
Fate | Scuttled 10 March 1945 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Bougainville-class aviso |
Displacement | |
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 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) |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × Gourdou-Leseurre GL-832 HY floatplane |
Amiral Charner was a
Battle of Koh Chang during the night of 16–17 January 1941.[1] She was scuttled in the Mỹ Tho River in French Indochina on 10 March 1945.[2]
References
- ^ "La bataille de Koh Chang (janvier 1941)" (in French). NetMarine.net. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
- OCLC 1145256109.
Bibliography
- Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- Jordan, John (2016). "The Colonial Sloops of the Bougainville Class". Warship 2016. London: Conway. pp. 8–29. ISBN 978-1-84486-326-6.
- Le Masson, Henri (1969). The French Navy. Navies of the Second World War. Vol. 2. London: MacDonald & Co. ISBN 0-356-02385-0.
- Morareau, Lucien (November–December 2011). "Les hydravions des avisos coloniaux: Première partie". Avions (in French). pp. 2–24.
- ISBN 1-59114-119-2.