Georges Leygues Class LOA 456′ TDISP 4,500 tons (7, 5 retired)
Georges Leygues D-640 during Operation Southern Watch, 1992 NARA: 330-CFD-DN-ST-93-00458 PHAN (Ac) April Hatton
Tourville Class LOA 501′ TDISP 6,100 tons (3, all retired)
Tourville D-610 during International Naval Review, 1986 NARA: 330-CFD-DN-ST-87-01255 Emmett Francois
Duguay-Trouin D-611 (1975 – 1999) long in use as breakwater at Lanveoc-Poulmic
This is another Tourville class that arrived near the Naval Academy at Lanveoc-Poulmic recently. Unlike Duguay-Trouin, it still has turrets.
Aconit D-609 type F-65 unique frigate LOA 417′ TDISP 3,800 tons (1973 – 1997) breakwater at Lanveoc-Poulmic for years, now in Landevennec inactive ship facility
Model of Aconit F-703 on display at the Musée national de la Marine [CC BY-SA 3.0]
Comandant Rivière class LOA 338′ TDISP 2,300 tons (9 built, French service 1962-1991, 3 sold to Uruguay, all out of service) class is very similar to the French-built Portuguese João Belo class. Two of those ships mostly replaced the 3 ex-French Navy ships.
Plan of Comandant Rivière frigate early in career, before Exocet missile launchers were fitted in place of the “X” gun position 3.9″ gun. Credit: Rama / CC BY-SA 2.0 FRNote very similar ex-Portuguese João Belo class above. The major difference is the ex-French ships have the very large ASW mortar (looking like a turret in “B” position) forward of the bridge, whereas the ex-Portuguese ships never had this feature.
Floreal Class Light Frigates LOA 307′ TDISP 3,000 tons. Service 1992 – present, (intended for patrol of far-flung overseas territories) (6 units active, 2 units also built for Morocco)
Moroccan Navy Floreal-class frigate Muhammed V during 2005 operations with the US Navy. US Navy Official 050405-N-3557N-174 Airman Christopher J. Newsome
