French aviso D'Iberville

History

France
Name:	D'Iberville
Namesake:	Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville
Builder:	At. & Ch. Maritime Sud-Ouest, Bordeaux
Launched:	23 September 1934
Fate:	scuttled at Toulon, 27 November 1942
General characteristics
Type:	Bougainville-class aviso
Displacement:	1,969 tonnes
Length:	103.7 metres (340 ft)
Beam:	12.98 metres (42.6 ft)
Draft:	4.8 metres (16 ft)
Propulsion:	2 Sulzer marine diesel engines, 3,200 bhp (2,400 kW)
Speed:	17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Complement:	139 peacetime; 183 wartime
Armament:	3 × 138 mm guns model 1927 (single mountings) 4 × 37 mm AA guns (single mountings) 6 × 13.2 mm machine guns capable of carrying 50 mines
Aircraft carried:	one seaplane

D′Iberville was a French Navy Bougainville-class aviso, designed to operate from French colonies in Asia and Africa. She was launched on 23 September 1934.

After France surrendered to Germany in June 1940 during World War II, D′Iberville served with the navy of Vichy France. She was scuttled with other ships of the French fleet at Toulon, France, on 27 November 1942.^[1]

Notes

↑ harv

Sources

Le Masson, Henri (1969). The French Navy. Navies of the Second World War. 2. London: MacDonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. pp. 11–13. ISBN 9780356023847.

Bougainville-class avisos

Amiral Charner Bougainville Dumont d'Urville D'Entrecasteaux Ville d'Ys / La Grandière D'Iberville Rigault de Genouilly Savorgnan de Brazza Le Beautemps-Beaupré La Pérouse

Preceded by: La Melpomène class Followed by: Chamois class

List of French modern frigates

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in November 1942

Shipwrecks	2 Nov: Empire Antelope, Empire Leopard 4 Nov: Hobbema, U-132 5 Nov: U-408 6 Nov: City of Cairo 7 Nov: Eveleen, Ha-11, USS Majaba 8 Nov: Albatros, Brestois, Boulonnais, Fougueux, Frondeur, HMS Hartland, Milan, Primauguet, Surprise, Tornade, Tramontane, HMS Walney, West Humhaw 9 Nov: HMS Cromer, USS Leedstown, Typhon 10 Nov: HMS Broke, I-15, HMS Ibis, Jean Bart, HMS Martin, Méduse 11 Nov: USS Joseph Hewes, HMS Unbeaten, Viceroy of India 12 Nov: USS Edward Rutledge, USS Erie, USS Hugh L. Scott, USS Tasker H. Bliss, HMS Tynwald, U-272, U-660 13 Nov: Akatsuki, USS Atlanta, USS Barton, USS Cushing, Empire Wold, HNLMS Isaac Sweers, USS Juneau, Kinugasa, USS Laffey, USS Monssen, U-411, Yūdachi 14 Nov: Hiei, Scillin, U-595, U-605 15 Nov: HMS Algerine, HMS Avenger, Ayanami, USS Benham, Kirishima, USS Preston, U-98, U-259, USS Walke 16 Nov: Irish Pine, U-173 17 Nov: U-331 18 Nov: Krasnoye Znamya, Tower Grange 19 Nov: USS YP-26 20 Nov: Prins Harald 21 Nov: U-517 24 Nov: Hayashio 25 Nov: HMS Utmost 27 Nov: Aigle, Algérie, Bordelais, Casque, Cassard, Colbert, Commandant Teste, D'Iberville, Dunkerque, Dupleix, Foch, Foudroyant, Gerfaut, Guépard, Jean de Vienne, Kersaint, La Galissonnière, Lion, Lynx, Mameluk, Marseillaise, Mogador, Panthère, Provence, Siroco, Strasbourg, Tartu, Tigre, Trombe, Valmy, Vauban, Vauquelin, Vautour, Vénus, Verdun 28 Nov: Empire Cromwell, HMS Ithuriel, Nova Scotia, Thomas T. Tucker 29 Nov: Dunedin Star 30 Nov: USS Northampton, HMCS Quinte, Takanami, Thor, Uckermark Unknown date: La Sibylle, Saint Edmond, U-184

Other incidents	7 Nov: USS Thomas Stone 8 Nov: HMS Broke, USS Leedstown 9 Nov: Wandle 14 Nov: USS Electra 15 Nov: HMCS Saguenay 16 Nov: USS Electra 17 Nov: Piemonte 20 Nov: HMS Bramham 27 Nov: Scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon 28 Nov: USS Alchiba 29 Nov: Akka

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