SAVORGNAN DE BRAZZA. 1st class sloop, French Navy, Built by CM Sud Ouest.
Launched 13th June 1931; completed 1932. Belonged to B0UGAINVILLE class. She had diesels of 3200 bhp, 2 screws and her speed was 15 knots.
Was at Dakar in 1940, where she sank the latter ship on 9th November. T.:1969 tons (st).
Dim.: 34O'3" x 41'8" x 14'9" (dr).
Arm 3 ‑ 138mm 4 - 37mm AA, 6 MG and 50 mines.
Log Book Feb 1987
Wallis & Futuna 1978 280f SG 289. Gibraltar SG748ms
Savorgnan De Brazza.
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Re: Savorgnan De Brazza.
The Free French Sloop
SAVORGNAN DE BRAZZA
by ANDRE BEAUDEl
(Gibraltar 1995. Miniature Sheet)
This Min Sheet pictures, amongst other vessels, the Free French ship SAVORGNAN DE BRAZZA.
Born an Italian in 1852, Pietro di Brazza-Savorgnani entered the French Naval College and, naturalized French, changed his name to Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
Brazza or Brac is the large Adriatic island near Split (Croatia) partly Italianized.
From 1875 Savorgnan explored parts of Western Africa {Gabon and Congo} His name was given to the city of Ntamo, capital of the then French Equatorial Africa, now Republic of Congo: Brazzaville, on the north bank of Stanley Pool (river Congo or Zaire).
In 1940 Brazzaville became the 'capital' of Free France. Its airfield was mainly used by British and Allied flights to East Africa and the Middle East.
The sloop (aviso colonial) SAVORGNAN DE BRAZZA belonged to a series of seven, built between 1932 and 1935: 1960 tons. III guns 138. IV 37, VI machine guns. 1 seaplane.
In 1939·she was part of the Naval Force Far-East, but stationed in La Pallice for maintenance. At the fall of France, she rallied to Portsmouth, to be seized like other French Naval ships, by the R.N. In July 1940 at the outset of the 'unfortunate' or inglorious 'Operation Catapult' at Mers-El Kebir. A few months later she was commissioned by the Free French Navy (Forces Navales France Libre)
She took part in the ill-fated operation "Menac" at Dakar in Sept 1940 and later succeeded
in winning over the colony of Gabon to de Gaulle, at the cost of a fracticidal engagement between French ships, when she put out of action her sistership 'BOUGAINVILLE' in Nov. 1940.
SAVORGNAN DE BRAZZA was then on service in the Red Sea and was back in Britain in April 1942 to take part in South Atlantic convoys. In 1943 she was sent to the Indian Ocean and South Pacific to join the Eastern Fleet. The sloop was decommissioned after 1945.
Log BookJune 1996.
SAVORGNAN DE BRAZZA
by ANDRE BEAUDEl
(Gibraltar 1995. Miniature Sheet)
This Min Sheet pictures, amongst other vessels, the Free French ship SAVORGNAN DE BRAZZA.
Born an Italian in 1852, Pietro di Brazza-Savorgnani entered the French Naval College and, naturalized French, changed his name to Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
Brazza or Brac is the large Adriatic island near Split (Croatia) partly Italianized.
From 1875 Savorgnan explored parts of Western Africa {Gabon and Congo} His name was given to the city of Ntamo, capital of the then French Equatorial Africa, now Republic of Congo: Brazzaville, on the north bank of Stanley Pool (river Congo or Zaire).
In 1940 Brazzaville became the 'capital' of Free France. Its airfield was mainly used by British and Allied flights to East Africa and the Middle East.
The sloop (aviso colonial) SAVORGNAN DE BRAZZA belonged to a series of seven, built between 1932 and 1935: 1960 tons. III guns 138. IV 37, VI machine guns. 1 seaplane.
In 1939·she was part of the Naval Force Far-East, but stationed in La Pallice for maintenance. At the fall of France, she rallied to Portsmouth, to be seized like other French Naval ships, by the R.N. In July 1940 at the outset of the 'unfortunate' or inglorious 'Operation Catapult' at Mers-El Kebir. A few months later she was commissioned by the Free French Navy (Forces Navales France Libre)
She took part in the ill-fated operation "Menac" at Dakar in Sept 1940 and later succeeded
in winning over the colony of Gabon to de Gaulle, at the cost of a fracticidal engagement between French ships, when she put out of action her sistership 'BOUGAINVILLE' in Nov. 1940.
SAVORGNAN DE BRAZZA was then on service in the Red Sea and was back in Britain in April 1942 to take part in South Atlantic convoys. In 1943 she was sent to the Indian Ocean and South Pacific to join the Eastern Fleet. The sloop was decommissioned after 1945.
Log BookJune 1996.
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Re: Savorgnan De Brazza.
25 March 1941 escort the FORT BINGER who sails from Durban to Port Sudan with on board a contingent of the First Free French Brigade of the East.
From 02 May 1941 until 07 January 1942 took part in the blockade of Djibouti.
27 July 1941 attacked unsuccessful the French submarine VENGEUR.
11 January 1942 left Aden for a refit in Great Britain.
24 January 1943 sailed from Greenock as convoy escort for convoy KMF 8 bound for Algiers.
19 March 1943 destroyed a German four engine Focke-Wulf 200 Condor plane in a position of the latitude of Bordeaux.
03 July 1943 arrived in Tamatave, Madagascar.
07 July 1943 sailed from Tamatave with on board the Governor General to visit the Comoros Group.
From March 1944 until the end of the war a unit of the Eastern Fleet in the South Pacific.
1947 Participates in operations in Indochina.
1950 Pendant No altered to F733.
December 1954 decommissioned in Tourane (now Da Nang), Vietnam.
March 1957 sold for demolition.
Gibraltar 1995 49p sgMS748, scott684d.
Wallis & Fatuna 1978 280fr sg289, scott209
Source: Wikipedia and various web-sites.
From 02 May 1941 until 07 January 1942 took part in the blockade of Djibouti.
27 July 1941 attacked unsuccessful the French submarine VENGEUR.
11 January 1942 left Aden for a refit in Great Britain.
24 January 1943 sailed from Greenock as convoy escort for convoy KMF 8 bound for Algiers.
19 March 1943 destroyed a German four engine Focke-Wulf 200 Condor plane in a position of the latitude of Bordeaux.
03 July 1943 arrived in Tamatave, Madagascar.
07 July 1943 sailed from Tamatave with on board the Governor General to visit the Comoros Group.
From March 1944 until the end of the war a unit of the Eastern Fleet in the South Pacific.
1947 Participates in operations in Indochina.
1950 Pendant No altered to F733.
December 1954 decommissioned in Tourane (now Da Nang), Vietnam.
March 1957 sold for demolition.
Gibraltar 1995 49p sgMS748, scott684d.
Wallis & Fatuna 1978 280fr sg289, scott209
Source: Wikipedia and various web-sites.