Le Corse class Frigate Escorteur Rapide French Navy Marine

French Navy - Marine Nationale
Le Corse class Frigate
Type E50 Escorteur Rapide

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04/22

Units:

F 761 FS Le Corse (1955-75)
F 762 FS Le Brestois (1956-75)
F 763 FS Le Boulonnais (1955-76)
F 764 FS Le Bordelais (1955-76)

Specifications:

Displacement: 1508 tons (standard) / 1702 tons (full load)
Length: 99.8 m (327 feet)
Beam: 10.3 m (34 ft)
Draft: 4.3 m (14 ft 1 in)
Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h)
Range: 4500 nmi (8300 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement: 198 (originally) / 170 (later)

Propulsion:
2 boilers / 2 shaft geared turbines
14,914 kW (20,000 bhp)
2 shafts / 2 propellers

Armament:
3 x Model 1951 57mm/L60 twin guns
2 x Oerlikon Mk.4 20mm AA gun
1 x Bofors 375 mm 6-tube ASW rocket launcher
4 x 550mm triple torpedo tubes
2 x depth-charge launcher
1 x depth-charge rack

Systems:
DRBV-20A air/surface search radar
DRBN-32 navigation radar
DRBC-31 fire control radar
ARBR-10 radar warning receiver
DUBV-1 sonar
DUBA-1 sonar

Aviation:
none

The Le Corse class (or E50 Type) was a class of 4 fast frigates (Escorteurs Rapide) built for the French Navy in the early 1950s. They were first surface combatant class of ships to be built after World War II and symbolized "the revival of the French fleet." They were followed by the Le Normand-class (or E52 Type) frigates, and like them, were long-range convoy escorts capable of high speed.

The E50 type shared a flush-decked layout with the E52 class, and had a similar armament of three twin 57mm turrets) (one forward and two aft) and an anti-submarine armament consisting of a battery of heavyweight guided torpedoes and a 375mm Bofors six-barrel rocket launcher.

source: wikipedia

Ship data:

F 761 FS Le Corse

Namesake:
The Corsican (inhabitant of Corsica)

Builder: Arsenal de Lorient, Brittany, France
Laid down: March 1952
Launched: August 8, 1952
Commissioned: April 23, 1955
Decommissioned: 1975
Fate: sunk as a target in 1976 (Atlantic)

F 762 FS Le Brestois

Namesake:
The Brestonian (inhabitant of Brest)

Buider: Arsenal de Lorient, Brittany, France
Laid down: August 1952
Launched: December 16, 1952
Commissioned: January 19, 1956
Decommissioned: 1975
Fate: sunk as a target in 1976 (Mediterranean)

F 763 FS Le Boulonnais

Namesake:
The Boulonnais (inhabitant of the Boulonnais area around Calais and Boulogne-sur-Mer)

Builder: Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire (ACL), Nantes, France
Laid down: September 1952
Launched: May 12, 1953
Commissioned: August 5, 1955
Decommissioned: 1976
Fate: breakwater at Brest / sunk as a target in 1994 (Atlantic)

F 764 FS Le Bordelais

Namesake:
The Bordeauxian (inhabitant of Bordeaux)

Builder: Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée (FCM), La Seyne-sur-Mer (Toulon), France
Laid down: January 1953
Launched: July 11, 1953
Commissioned: April 7, 1955
Decommissioned: 1976
Fate: breakwater at Brest / sold for scrap in 1981 / scrapped in Vigo, Spain

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