Rigault de Genouilly (PG-80) was a Bougainville-class aviso of the French Navy. She was designed to operate from French colonies in Africa, Asia, and...
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French cruiser Rigault de Genouilly, the lead ship of the Rigault de Genouilly class French aviso Rigault de Genouilly, a French Navy aviso commissioned...
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Admiral Pierre-Louis-Charles Rigault de Genouilly (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl ʁiɡo də ʒənuji], 12 April 1807 – 4 May 1873) was a French naval officer...
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The Rigault de Genouilly class was a pair of unprotected cruisers—Rigault de Genouilly and Éclaireur—that were built for the French Navy in the 1870s....
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joint Franco-Spanish expedition under the command of Admiral Charles Rigault de Genouilly captured Tourane (modern Da Nang) in September 1858, but was then...
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6:43 p.m. Somerville ordered his ships to pursue. The French aviso Rigault de Genouilly, en route to Oran, met Force H at 7:33 p.m. and steamed towards...
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War sloop Dédaigneuse (1916), Bougainville-class avisos Bougainville (1931) and Rigault de Genouilly (1932) and the La Galissonnière-class cruiser Gloire...
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The Bougainville class was a group of colonial avisos, or sloops, built for the French Navy during the 1930s. They were designed to operate in the remote...
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French cruiser Éclaireur (category Rigault de Genouilly-class cruisers)
Éclaireur was a Rigault de Genouilly-class cruiser built in the 1870s for the French Navy; she was the second and final member of the class. The ships...
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VIII torpedoes. On 4 July 1940 she torpedoed and sank the French aviso Rigault de Genouilly off the Algerian coast. In an extension of the Lend-Lease program...
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a Franco-Spanish expedition under the command of Admiral Charles Rigault de Genouilly on 17 February 1859. The arrival of massive reinforcements from the...
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Champlain, Châteaurenault, Éclaireur, Rigault de Genouilly Cruisers (3rd Class): Kerguelen, Volta, Duchaffault Avisos-transports: Saône Gunboats: Lutin,...
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approved, and in early February Rigault de Genouilly sailed south for Saigon, leaving command of Tourane to capitaine de vaisseau (captain of the ship)...
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August 1858. In 1859 Lafont was an aide-de-camp to Rigault de Genouilly in Da Nang. Lafont was promoted to capitaine de frégate (frigate captain) on 19 November...
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Siege of Saigon, thereby continuing the endeavour of Admiral Charles Rigault de Genouilly, and permitting the establishment of the first French territories...
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following year, which also included the unprotected cruisers Nielly and Rigault de Genouilly. In February 1895, the unit returned to Brest, where it was temporarily...
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blockade included her sister D'Estaing, and Villars, Champlain, Rigault de Genouilly, and Éclaireur. The ships were based at Tainan, toward the southern...
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Antoine Schwerer (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
blockade of Formosa. On 1 January 1885 he was posted to the cruiser Rigault-de-Genouilly in the Far East Squadron. On 1 January 1886 Schwerer's ship was transferred...
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along with the protected cruiser Sfax and the unprotected cruiser Rigault de Genouilly. The three cruisers were mobilized on 20 June to take part in the...
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(although the handwritten personal diary of a sailor from the aviso Rigault de Genouilly mentions the presence of the submarines at Saigon on 28 November...
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Mediterranean Fleet, along with the two Vaubans and the unprotected cruiser Rigault de Genouilly. The ships concentrated off Oran, French Algeria on 22 June and then...
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War II in September. In mid-November, Gloucester and the French aviso Rigault de Genouilly were assigned to patrol the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and...
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commanding officer was Frigate Captain (Capitaine de Frégate, a rank equivalent to Commander) Raymond de Belot. The boat encountered several technical challenges:...
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April 1944 decommissioned 1947, sold for scrap 1973 Rigault de Genouilly French Navy Bougainville aviso 1,938 14 March 1934 sunk 4 July 1940 Riley United...
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Capricieuse was a ship of the French Elan-class minesweeping sloops (Avisos dragueur de mines). She was built by Chantiers Dubigeon at Nantes and launched...
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ironclads Bayard, Duguesclin, and Vauban, the unprotected cruiser Rigault de Genouilly, the torpedo gunboat Couleuvrine, and two torpedo boats. During the...
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the command of Admiral Marcel Landriau [fr], with his flag on the aviso Savorgnan de Brazza, with these ships and a number of smaller units to support...
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(although the handwritten personal diary of a sailor from the aviso Rigault de Genouilly mentions the presence of the submarines at Saigon on 28 November...
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List of shipwrecks in July 1940 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Uboat. Retrieved 21 February 2012. "Schnellboot 1937 Ships". german-navy.de. Retrieved 1 July 2014. "Emerald Wings: Block Ship". Scapa Flow Wrecks. Retrieved...
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Evans and others. 19 September France Arsenal de Brest Brest Rigault de Genouilly Rigault de Genouilly-class cruiser For French Navy. 20 September United...
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