French aviso Rigault de Genouilly

*Rigault de Genouilly*
History
Rigault de Genouilly in 1938
France
Name:	Rigault de Genouilly
Namesake:	Rigault de Genouilly
Launched:	18 September 1932
Fate:	sunk 4 July 1940
General characteristics
Type:	Bougainville-class aviso
Displacement:	1,970 tonnes
Length:	103.7 m (340 ft)
Beam:	12.7 m (42 ft)
Draft:	4.5 m (15 ft)
Propulsion:	2 Diesel engines 3,200
Speed:	17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Armament:	3 × 138-millimetre (5 in) guns model 1927 (single mountings) 4 × 37mm AA guns (single mountings) 6 × 13.2 mm machine guns capable of carrying 50 mines

Rigault de Genouilly was a Bougainville-class aviso of the French Navy. The ship was designed to operate from French colonies in Asia and Africa. On 4 July 1940 Rigault de Genouilly was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine HMS Pandora off the Algerian coast.^[1]

References

↑ "Allied Warships of WWII - Submarine HMS Pandora". uboat.net. Retrieved 2012-01-05.

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 July 1940

Shipwrecks	1 Jul: Clearton, U-102 2 Jul: Arandora Star, U-26 3 Jul: Bretagne, Mistral, Mogador, Provence 4 Jul: Rigault de Genouilly 5 Jul: HMS Foylebank, HMS Whirlwind, Zeffiro 6 Jul: Dunkerque, HMS Shark 9 Jul: Bruges, HMS Salmon 10 Jul: Leone Pancaldo 11 Jul: HMS Escort, HMS Warrior 16 Jul: HMS Imogen, HMS Phoenix 19 Jul: Bartolomeo Colleoni 21 Jul: HMS Brazen 23 Jul: HMS Narwhal 25 Jul: HMS Thames 27 Jul: HMS Codrington, HMS Wren 30 Jul: HMS Delight

Other incidents	3 Jul: Courbet, Dunkerque, La Capricieuse, Léopard, Paris, Surcouf, Triomphant 4 Jul: Argos Hill, British Corporal 9 Jul: HMS Foxglove 10 Jul: HMS Corfu, HMS Hermes 16 Jul: HMS Glasgow 27 Jul: Lepanto 28 Jul: HMS Alcantara

1939 1940 1941 June 1940 August 1940

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