Tourville (D 610)

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Career France

Laid down:	16 March 1970
Launched:	13 May 1973
Commissioned:	14 June 1975
Status:
Homeport:	Brest
General Characteristics
Displacement:	4580 tonnes (6100 tonnes fully loaded)
Length:	152.75 m
Beam:	15.80 m
Draught:	6.60 m
Propulsion:	2 Rateau steam turbines, double reduction 4 multitubular boilers Fuel: Gazoil Propelers : 2 fixed propelers Power : 58000 hp (42630 kW)
Speed:	32 knots (59 km/h)
Range:	1900 nautical miles (3500 km) at 30 knots (56 km/h) 4500 nautical miles (8300 km) and 18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement:	24 officers 160 non-commissioned officers 115 men
Sensors and processing systems:	Detection 1 DRBV 51B surface sentry radar 1 DRBV 26A air sentry radar 1 DRBC 32D targeting radar 2 DRBN 34 navigation radars 1 DUBV 23 hull sonar 1 ETBF DSBV 62C sonar 1 DSBX 1 tugged sonar 1 Syva torpedo alert system Tactical information SENIT 3 SEAO/OPSMER Transmissions HF, UHF, VHF and SHF liaison systems Syracuse 2 Inmarsat Link 11
Electronic warfare and decoys:	1 ARBB 32 jammer 1 ARBR 16 radar interceptor 2 Syllex decoy launchers bubble belt
Armament:	Anti-air 1 Crotale EDIR system (8 missiles on launcher, 18 in magasine) 2 x 100 mm turrets (1968 model) 2 x 20 mm cannons 4 x 12.7 mm machine guns Anti-surface 6 Exocet MM38 anti-ship missiles launchers Anti-submarine 2 x L5 torpedoe launchers, 10 torpedoes on board (L5 mod 4)
Aircraft carried:	2 Lynx WG13

The Tourvile is a F67 type large high-sea frigates of the French Marine Nationale specialised in anti-submarine warfare, though it also has anti-air and anti-surface capabilities. She is named after the XVIIth Century admiral count Anne-Hilarion de Cotentin de Tourville.

Between 1994 and 1996, the Tourville (and the De Grasse) was refitted with the modern SLAMS anti-submarine system, an active Very Low Frequencies sonar.

The three ships of the class are

D610 Tourville
D611 Duguay-Trouin (decommissioned in 1999)
D612 De Grasse

[edit] See also

French ship Tourville for other ships of the name

[edit] Photographs

close-up of the bridge of the Tourville. The rescue crafts are clearly visible, as well as the Exocet launchers and the firing control systems	close-up of the bow deck of the Tourville; the 100mm turret is clearly visible	close-up of the bow deck of the Tourville; the 100mm turret is clearly visible	The frigate Tourville
The frigate Tourville