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Champlain class Amphibious Landing Ship
Batiment de Transport Léger (BATRAL)
 

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Ships:
 
L 9030 FS Champlain (1974-2004)
L 9031 FS Francis Garnier (1974-2011)
L 9032 FS Dumont D’Urville (1983-2017)
L 9033 FS Jacques Cartier (1983-2013)
L 9034 FS La Grandiere (1987-2016)
 
 
Specifications:
 
Displacement: 770 tons (standard) / 1330 tons (full load)
Length: 80 meters (262 feet 6 inches)
Beam: 13 meters (42 ft 8 in)
Draft: 3 meters (9 ft 10 in)
Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h), max.
Range: 4500 NM (8300 km) at 13 knots (24 km/h)
Complement: 44
 
Propulsion:
2 x SACM Wärtsilä UD 33 V12 M4 diesel engines (3600 hp / 2700 kW)
2 shafts / 2 propellers
 
Armament: 
2 x 20mm or 40mm AA guns
2 x 81mm mortars
 
Aviation:
 helicopter landing deck / no hangar
 
 Systems:
Decca 1226 navigation radar
Inmarsat
  
 
Ship data:
 
L 9030 FS Champlain
 
Namesake:
Samuel de Champlain (c. 13 August 1567 - 25 December 1635) was a French colonist, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, explorer,
geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. He made between 21 and 29 trips across the Atlantic Ocean, and founded Quebec,
and New France, on 3 July 1608. An important figure in Canadian history, Champlain created the first accurate coastal map during his explorations,
and founded various colonial settlements.
 
Builder: Direction des Construction Navales (DCN), Brest
Laid down: 1973
Launched: November 17, 1973
Commissioned: October 5, 1974
Decommissioned: August 30, 2004
Fate: sunk as a target, off Martinique, on October 27, 2004

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 L 9031 FS Francis Garnier

Namesake:
Marie Joseph François Garnier (25 July 1839 - 21 December 1873) was a French officer, inspector of Indigenous Affairs of Cochinchina and explorer.
He eventually became mission leader of the Mekong Exploration Commission in 19th century Southeast Asia.
 
Builder: Direction des Construction Navales (DCN), Brest
Laid down: 1973
Launched: November 17, 1973
Commissioned: June 21, 1974
Decommissioned: February 16, 2011
Fate: 2011-2017 laid up in Brest / dismantled in Ghent, Belgium in 2017

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 L 9032 FS Dumont D’Urville
 
Namesake:
Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (23 May 1790 - 8 May 1842) was a French explorer and naval officer who explored the south and
western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. As a botanist and cartographer, he gave his name to several seaweeds,
plants and shrubs, and places such as d'Urville Island in New Zealand.

Builder: Chantier de Normandie, Grand-Quevilly (Rouen-Seine)
Laid down: December 15, 1980
Launched: November 27, 1981
Commissioned: February 5, 1983
Decommissioned: July 2017
Fate: 2017-2021 laid up in Brest / laid up at Landévennec ship cemetery since 2021

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 L 9033 FS Jacques Cartier
 
Namesake:
Jacques Cartier (31 December 1491 - 1 September 1557) was a French-Breton maritime explorer for France.
Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River,
which he named "The Country of Canadas" after the Iroquoian names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona (Quebec City)
and at Hochelaga (Montreal Island).

Builder: Chantier de Normandie, Grand-Quevilly (Rouen-Seine)
Laid down: October 9, 1981
Launched: April 28, 1982
Commissioned: September 28, 1983
Decommissioned: July 9, 2013
Fate: 2013-2016 laid up in Brest / dismantled in Ghent, Belgium in 2016

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 L 9034 FS La Grandiere
 
Namesake:
Pierre Paul Marie Benoît de La Grandière (28 June 1807 - 25 August 1876) was a French admiral who was Governor of the colony of
Cochinchina from 1863 to 1868. He consolidated French control over Vietnam, and developed the city of Saigon as a major port.
 
Builder: Construction Navale Ateliers français de l'Ouest, Brest
Laid down: August 27, 1984
Launched: December 11, 1985
Commissioned: January 20, 1987
Decommissioned: July 11, 2016
Fate: 2016-2018 laid up in Brest / breakwater in Lanvéoc-Poulmic since November 2018

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The Bâtiment de Transport Léger (abbreviated BATRAL; "Light ferry ship") are small landing ships of the French Navy. Also known as Champlain class by the lead ship, they have been used for regional transport and patrol needs in French Overseas Departments and Territories since the 1970s.

The BATRALs can ferry over 400 tons of military cargo, in the hangar and on the deck. Loading and unloading can be done from a harbour or on a beach. The accommodations are designed for a Guépard-type intervention unit (five officers, fifteen petty officers and 118 men), or for typical company-sized armoured units. A helicopter landing deck allows landing for light helicopters, and transfer to and from heavy helicopters.
 
source: wikipedia 
 
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L 9030 FS Champlain

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L 9030 FS Champlain


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L 9031 FS Francis Garnier

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L 9031 FS Francis Garnier

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L 9031 FS Francis Garnier


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L 9032 FS Dumont D’Urville

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L 9032 FS Dumont D’Urville

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L 9032 FS Dumont D’Urville

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L 9032 FS Dumont D’Urville

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L 9032 FS Dumont D’Urville

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L 9032 FS Dumont D’Urville

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L 9032 FS Dumont D’Urville

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L 9032 FS Dumont D’Urville

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L 9032 FS Dumont D’Urville

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L 9032 FS Dumont D’Urville


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L 9033 FS Jacques Cartier

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L 9033 FS Jacques Cartier

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L 9033 FS Jacques Cartier


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L 9034 FS La Grandiere

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L 9034 FS La Grandiere

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L 9034 FS La Grandiere
 
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