| Data for D638 La Galissonnière. | ||
|---|---|---|
| Completed: | ||
| Displacement: | 2750 tons standard, 3910 tons full load | |
| Dimensions: | Lenght oa: | 132,8m (435,7ft) |
| Beam: | 12,7m (41,7ft) | |
| Draught: | 5,4m (17,7ft) | |
| Propulsion: | 4 Indret boilers; | |
| 2-shaft Rateau geared steam turbines; | ||
| 47 000 MW (63 000 hp) = 32 kt | ||
| Weapons: | AAW: | 2 single 100mm (3,9in) L/55 DP |
| ASW: | 1 single launcher for Malafon | |
| 1 Bofors quadruple 305mm ASW mortar | ||
| 2 triple 550mm tubes for K2 or L3 ASW torpedoes | ||
| Sensors: | Surveillence: | DRBV-22, DRBV-50 |
| Fire Control: | DRBC-32A | |
| Sonars: | DUBV-23, DUBV-43 VDS | |
| Complement: | 15 + 255 | |
This was originally the sixth T53 but she was completed to revised design. She was intended to recieve four of the new 100mm single automatic mountings and serve as a air defence ship just like her sister. However, the French navy, and indeed most navys around the world at that time, where becoming more and more concerned with the threat that nuclear submarines posed. One migth also conjecture that the all gun destroyer was percived as becoming less efficent in the air defence role.
Instead she was completed with 2 100mm forward and prototype Malafon aft. On top of the missile magazine deckhouse there was a flightdeck and a collapsible hangar for an Alouette Helicopter.A Bofors quadruple 305mm ASW mortar was installed forward the hangar but was removed in the late 1970s.
The successfull conversion of La Galissonnière opened way for the conversions of five T47 type ships to the anti submarine role.
Sources: Modern Destoyers (1986), Modern Warships(1986)