With a grid-Brézé

The With a grid-Brézé is a Escorteur of squadron of the French National marine of the class of T47, baptized name of the famous sailor Jean Armand of With a grid-Brézé. It is about the third bearing ship this name.

History

Put on hold at Lorient, on October 9th, 1953 and launched on July 2nd, 1955, it was allowed with the active service on May 4th, 1957.

The essence of its mission was then the support for the strategic oceanic Force.

It was disarmed on April 1st, 1988 and was transformed into Navire museum with Nantes.

Initial characteristics before recasting

Startup: May 4th, 1957

Displacement: 3750 tons

Power: 63000 cv

Maximum speed: 32 nodes (It established on March 27th, 1956 the speed records of all the series of the escort ships of squadron: 39 nodes is 72 km/h)

Autonomy: 5000 nautical with 18 nodes

Armament:

6 guns of 127 mm
6 guns of 57 mm
4 guns of 20 mm
12 torpedo tubes of 550 mm
lance rocket ASM.

Air and underwater detection;

1 radar of air day before
1 radar of day before surface
1 radar of combined day before
1 DUBV (ultrasonic Detection building Takes care)
1 DUBA (ultrasonic Detection Attaque building)

Crew

350 men including 20 officers.

The crew is divided on 7 stations.

Command

In 1957:

Commander: Commander Maudhuit
Second in command: Lieutenant commander Coulondres
Officer ASM: lieutenant Gouton
Officer gunner: lieutenant Toubon
radio operator Officer: lieutenant Radius

First stopovers and missions

Departure of Lorient in February 1957

1957: Bergen, Bodo, Tromsoë, Hammerfeast, Oslo, Hamburg, Gibraltar, Palma de Majorque, Bizerte, Lebanon, Algiers, Oran, Seas el Kébir, Arzew, Bastia
1958: Bône, Candle, Arzew, Malta, Palermo, Sciacca, Naples

External bonds

the naval museum With a grid-Brézé in Historical Nantes
and characteristics on Net Navy

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