BATRAL-class landing ship
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 BATRAL Francis Garnier |
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | BATRAL |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Landing ship tank |
| Displacement: | 770 t, 1,330 t fully loaded |
| Length: | 80 m (262 ft) |
| Beam: | 13 m (43 ft) |
| Draught: | 3 m (10 ft) |
| Propulsion: |
2 diesel SACM Wärtsilä UD 33 V12 M4 |
| Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,500 nautical miles (8,330 km) at 13 knots (24 km/h) |
| Complement: |
3 officers |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
1 DECCA 1226 navigation radar Inmarsat system |
| Armament: |
2 x 40 mm anti-air guns |
The Bâtiment de Transport Léger ("Light ferry ship") are small landing ships of the French Navy. They are able to ferry over 400 tons of matériel, in the hangar and on the deck. Loading and unloading can be done from a harbour or from a beach. Two flat-bottom vessels allow unloading fifty men and light vehicles each. 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.
The Chilean Navy purchased the plans and built two ships in the ASMAR shipyards in the early 1980s.
Ships
- Champlain decommissioned
- Francis Garnier decommissioned
- Dumont D'Urville
- Jacques Cartier
- La Grandière
- Rancagua (R92)
- Chacabuco (R95)
- Maipo (R91) decommissioned in 1998, later sold to civil operator
- L'Elephant
- President el Hadj Omar Bongo (L05)
- Daoud Ben Aicha (402)
- Ahmed Es Skali (403)
- Abou Abdallah El Ayachi (404)
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The Dumont D'Urville with her landing bow opened
External links
- (French) French Ministry of Defence
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