Built as a destroyer at the Arsenal Brest at Brest for the French Navy.
26 October 1979 laid down.
17 November 1981 launched as the JEAN DE VIENNE (D643). Named after the first admiral of the French Navy Jean de Vienne (1341-1396)
Displacement 3,550 tons standard, 4,500 ton full load, Dim. 139 x 14 x 5.8m. (draught).
Powered CODOG by 2 Rolls Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines, 26,000 hp. 2 Pielstick PA 6 V280 STD diesel engines, 5,200 hp., twin shafts, speed gas turbines 30 knots, diesels 21 knots. Two controllable pitch propellers.
Range by a speed of 30 knots, 1,000 mile on gas, on diesel by a speed of 15 knots, 10,000 mile.
Armament: Anti-air 1 – Crotale EDIR system – 8 missiles on launcher + 18 stored. 2 – Simbad systems – 2 x 2 Mistral missiles.
1 – CADAM 100 mm main gun. 2 – 20mm guns, 4 – 12.7 mm machine guns.
Anti-surface: 10 – L5 Mod4 torpedoes. 2 – L5 torpedo launchers.
Carries 2 – Lynx WG 13 Mk 4 helicopters.
Crew 20 officers, 120 non-commissioned officers and 95 men.
25 May 1984 commissioned. Homeport Toulon.
The JEAN DE VIENNE is one of the F70 type anti submarine frigate of the French Navy. In the French navy she is classed as a frigate while the French Navy doesn’t use the term destroyer for its ships.
She is a unit of the Force d’Action Navale (Naval Action Force). And after commissioned she has been seen in many trouble spots special in the Indian Ocean
After September 11 2001 she was an escort by the carrier battle group as part of the Allied response in Afghanistan.
During 2001 and 2002 in the Persian Gulf as an escort of the French aircraft carrier CHARLES DE GAULLE.
2009 Was used to patrol the pirate infested waters off Somalia.
2012 In service.
Ascension 1989 15p sg503, scott474f.
Source: Wikipedia. http://www.netmarine.net/bat/fregates/j ... /index.htm