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Encyclopedia > FS Tourville
Frigate Tourville
Career French Navy Ensign
Displacement: 4580 tonnes (6100 tonnes fully loaded)
Length: 152.75 m
Width: 15.80 m
Draught: 6.60 m
Propulsion: 2 Rateau steam turbines, double reduction

4 multitubular boilers
Fuel: Gazoil
Propelers : 2 fixed propelers
Power : 58000 hp (42630 kW)
Image File history File links Tourville_4. ... Image File history File links French-Ensign. ...

Speed: 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

160 non-commissioned officers
115 men

Armament: Anti-air
  • 1 Crotale EDIR system (8 missiles on launcher, 18 in magasine)
  • 2 x 100 mm turrets (1968 model)
  • 2 x 20 mm cannons
  • 4 x 12.7 mm machine guns

Anti-surface Crotales are also percussion instruments. ... The French 100 mm naval gun is a polyvalent artillery piece (anti-air, anti-ship, ground), capable of a high rate of fire. ...

  • 6 Exocet MM38 anti-ship missiles launchers

Anti-submarine In older English literature there are some uses of exocet to mean flying fish. The Exocet is a French-built anti-ship missile made in various versions capable of being launched from surface ships and boats, submarines, and airplanes. ...

  • 2 x L5 torpedoe launchers, 10 torpedoes on board (L5 mod 4)
Electronics Detection
  • 1 DRBV 51B surface sentry radar
  • 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

Electronic Warfare

  • 1 ARBB 32 jammer
  • 1 ARBR 16 radar interceptor
  • 2 Syllex decoy launchers
  • bubble belt

Tactical information

  • SENIT 3
  • SEAO/OPSMER

Transmissions

  • HF, UHF, VHF and SHF liaison systems
  • Syracuse 2
  • Inmarsat
  • Liaison 11
Planes 2 Lynx WG13

The Tourvile is a F67 type large high-sea frigates of the French Marine Nationale specialised in anti-submarine warfare, though it also has anti-air and anti-surface capabilities. She is named after the XVIIth Century admiral count Anne-Hilarion de Cotentin de Tourville. The AgustaWestland Lynx is a helicopter designed by AgustaWestland (formerly Westland Aircraft) and jointly produced with Aérospatiale, first flying on 21 March 1971 as the Westland WG.13. ... The F67 type is a class of large high-sea (Blue water) frigates of the French Navy specialised in anti-submarine warfare. ... The French Navy (Marine Nationale) is the maritime arm of the French military and is the largest Western European navy in terms of number of active-duty vessels. ... Look up Count in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Countess redirects here. ... Anne Hilarion de Contentin, comte de Tourville Anne Hilarion de Contentin, comte de Tourville Anne Hilarion de Contentin, comte de Tourville (1642–1701) was a French naval commander who served under King Louis XIV. Aged 17, a Knight of Malta, he fought his first naval fight on a frigate of...


Between 1994 and 1996, the Tourville (and the De Grasse) was refitted with the modern SLAMS anti-submarine system, an active Very Low Frequencies sonar.


The three ships of the class are

  • D610 Tourville
  • D611 Duguay-Trouin (decommissioned in 1999)
  • D612 De Grasse

  Results from FactBites:
 
Tourville class frigate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (234 words)
The F67 type is a class of large high-sea (Blue water) frigates of the French Navy specialised in anti-submarine warfare.
The three ships of the class, D612 De Grasse, D611 Duguay-Trouin (decommissioned on the 13th of July 1999) and the D610 Tourville, are named after famous French sailors.
Between 1994 and 1996, the Tourville and the De Grasse were refitted with the modern SLAMS anti-submarine system, an active Very Low Frequencies sonar.
FS Tourville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (188 words)
The Tourvile is a F67 type large high-sea frigates of the French Marine Nationale specialised in anti-submarine warfare, though it also has anti-air and anti-surface capabilities.
She is named after the XVIIth Century admiral count Anne-Hilarion de Cotentin de Tourville.
This page was last modified 04:18, 16 March 2006.
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