French frigate Vendémiaire (F734)
<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Frigate Vendémiaire in 2013
Frigate Vendémiaire in 2013
|
|
History | |
---|---|
![]() |
|
Name: | Vendémiaire |
Namesake: | Month of Vendémiaire |
Ordered: | 1989 |
Builder: | Chantiers de l'Atlantique |
Laid down: | 17 January 1992 |
Launched: | 23 August 1992 |
Commissioned: | 21 October 1993 |
Homeport: | Nouméa |
Status: | in service |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Floréal-class frigate |
Displacement: | 2600 tonnes (2950 tonnes full load) |
Length: | 93.5 m (307 ft) |
Beam: | 14 metres (46 ft) |
Draught: | 4.4 m (14 ft) |
Propulsion: |
|
Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Range: | 10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph), 13,000 nautical miles (24,000 km; 15,000 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Boats & landing craft carried: |
|
Complement: |
|
Sensors and processing systems: |
|
Electronic warfare & decoys: |
|
Armament: |
|
Aircraft carried: | 1 Alouette III helicopter |
The Vendémiaire is a light monitoring frigate ("frégate de surveillance") of the French Marine Nationale. She is the fifth ship of the Floréal class, and is named after Vendémiaire, the first month of the Republican Calendar.
Operational history
Vendémiaire was deployed to East Timor as part of the Australian-led INTERFET peacekeeping taskforce from 20 September to 17 November 1999.[1]
Vendémiaire and her sister ship Nivose are reasonably frequent visitors to Wellington.
The ship went on a tour of Chinese ports in 2011, stopping at Canton, Chiang Tao, Hong Kong and Shanghai.[2] It was opened to the public 17-4-11 in Hong Kong.
In October 2013 participated in the International Fleet Review 2013 in Sydney, Australia.
In 2015, following Cyclone Pam France ordered the Vendémiaire to sail from Nouméa, New Caledonia, to Vanuatu to conduct surveys along with aircraft from the island territory.[3]
Gallery
-
Vendémiaire F734 Nouméa.jpg
Frigate Vendémiaire (F734) alongside at Nouméa
-
Vendemiaire17411-1.jpg
Vendémiaire (F734) alongside at Ocean Terminal, Hong Kong 17-04-2011
-
Vendemiaire17411-2.jpg
Members of the public waiting to board the Vendemiaire, Hong Kong 17-4-11
References
![]() |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vendemiaire (F734). |
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>