''Commandant Bory'' (F726) was a in the
French Navy
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.
Development and design
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
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(ACB) in Nantes for the
Portuguese Navy
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under the class name João Belo.
All French units were decommissioned in the mid-1990s. Three ships were sold to the
Uruguayan Navy
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History Independence
Unde ...
.
[Gardiner and Chumbley 1995, p. 117.]
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
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Keel laying is one o ...
in May 1958 at
Arsenal de Lorient
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Heir to the French naval dockyards i ...
,
Lorient
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History
Prehistory and classical antiquity
Beginn ...
.
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
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Places
*Brest, Belarus
**Brest Region
**Brest Airport
**Brest Fortress
*Brest, Kyustendil Province, Bulgaria
*Břest, Czech Republic
*Brest, France
**Arrondissement of Brest
**Brest Bretagne Airport
** Château de Brest
*Brest, ...
.
[Baker 1998, p. 223.]
The ship was sunk as a target in 2004.
Citations
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Ships built in Lorient
1958 ships
Commandant Rivière-class frigates
Ships sunk as targets
Shipwrecks
Maritime incidents in 2004