French ship Bougainville (L9077)
Bougainville was a French landing platform dock and an intelligence vessel ordered on behalf of French nuclear experimentation centers. The ship was constructed by Chantiers Dubigeon shipyard at Nantes and completed by Chantiers de l'Atlantique at Saint Nazaire. Bougainville was launched on 28 January 1986 and commissioned on 25 June 1988. During the bulk of its career, it was used for transportation for French nuclear tests in Polynesia or humanitarian aid. In the latter half its career, the vessel was converted for signals intelligence and was replaced by Dupuy de Lôme in 2006. Bougainville was decommissioned in 2008 and used as part of the breakwater for the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. The ship was sold for scrap in 2018.
Bougainville at Toulon in 2006 | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders | |
| Operators | French Navy |
| Preceded by | Ouragan class |
| Succeeded by | Foudre class |
| Planned | 1 |
| Completed | 1 |
| Retired | 1 |
| History | |
| France | |
| Name | Bougainville |
| Namesake | Louis Antoine de Bougainville |
| Ordered | 22 November 1984 |
| Laid down | 28 January 1986 |
| Launched | 3 October 1986 |
| Commissioned | 25 June 1988 |
| Decommissioned | 2008 |
| Reclassified | 1998 |
| Fate | Sold on 17 May 2018 for scrapping in Ghent, Belgium |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Landing platform dock |
| Displacement | |
| Length | |
| Beam | 17.0 m (55 ft 9 in) |
| Draught | 4.2 m (13 ft 9 in) |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 52 (+30 technicians) |
| Sensors and processing systems | 2 × Decca 1226 naval navigation radar |
| Armament | 78 m × 11.5 m (255 ft 11 in × 37 ft 9 in) well deck |
| Aviation facilities | Landing pad for two helicopters |
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