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    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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  • Thumbnail for Rigault de Genouilly-class cruiser
    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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  • Thumbnail for French cruiser Primauguet (1882)
    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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  • Thumbnail for French submarine Phénix (Q157)
    (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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  • Thumbnail for French submarine Surcouf
    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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  • Thumbnail for French sloop La Capricieuse
    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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  • Thumbnail for French submarine L'Espoir
    (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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