French frigate Commandant Bory

Commandant Bory (F726) was a Commandant Rivière-class frigate in the French Navy.

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Commandant Bory.

Commandant Bory
History
France
NameCommandant Bory
NamesakeVictor Bory
BuilderArsenal de Lorient, Lorient
Laid downMay 1958
Launched11 October 1958
Commissioned5 March 1964
Decommissioned1 September 1996
IdentificationPennant number: F726
FateSunk as target, 2004
General characteristics
Class and typeCommandant Rivière-class frigate
Displacement
  • 1,720 long tons (1,750 t) standard
  • 2,190 long tons (2,230 t) full load
Length
  • 98.0 m (321 ft 6 in) oa
  • 103.0 m (337 ft 11 in) pp
Beam11.5 m (37 ft 9 in)
Draught4.3 m (14 ft 1 in)
Propulsion
Speed25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)
Range7,500 nmi (13,900 km; 8,600 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Boats & landing
craft carried		2 × LCP landing craft
Complement166
Sensors and
processing systems
  • DRBV22A air search radar
  • DRBC32C fire control radar
  • DUBA3 sonar
  • SQS17 sonar
Armament

Development and design
Main article: Commandant Rivière-class frigate

Designed to navigate overseas, the escort escorts were fully air-conditioned, resulting in appreciated comfort, which was far from being the case for other contemporary naval vessels.

A posting on a Aviso-escort was a boarding sought after by sailors because it was a guarantee of campaigning overseas and visiting the country.

Four other similar units were built at Ateliers et Chantiers de Bretagne (ACB) in Nantes for the Portuguese Navy under the class name João Belo.[1]

All French units were decommissioned in the mid-1990s. Three ships were sold to the Uruguayan Navy.[2][3]

In 1984, Commandant Rivière underwent a redesign to become an experimentation building. It will retain only a single triple platform of 550mm anti-submarine torpedo tubes and all the rest of the armament was landed, replaced by a single 40mm anti-aircraft gun and two 12.7mm machine guns.

Construction and career

Commandant Bory was laid down in May 1958 at Arsenal de Lorient, Lorient. Launched on 11 October 1958 and commissioned on 5 March 1964.

In 1979, she underwent refit.

She was decommissioned on 1 September 1996, she served from 1996 to 2004 as a breakwater in Brest.[4][5]

The ship was sunk as a target in 2004.

Citations
  1. "Navires". Mer et Marine (in French). Archived from the original on 18 September 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  2. Gardiner and Chumbley 1995, p. 117.
  3. "Aviso-escorteur Commandant Rivière". netmarine.net (in French). Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  4. Baker 1998, p. 223.
  5. "FS COMMANDANT BORY F726 - ShipSpotting.com - Ship Photos and Ship Tracker". www.shipspotting.com. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
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