Germinal
F 735
2004
(Klabautermann KLA-X-1a)
- Class: Floreal - 6 frégates de surveillance
- Displacement: 2600 tons trials; 2950 tons full load
- Dimensions: 307 x 46 x 14 ft
- Machinery: 2 shafts, 4 SEMT-Pielstick 6PA 6L280 diesels, 8800bhp = 20 kts
- Missiles: 2 MM 38 Exocet SSM
- Guns: 1-100mm Mod 1968, 2-20mm (2x1)
- Helicopters: 1 AS 565 Panther helicopter
- Complement: 80 + 24 commqndos
- Builder: Chantiers de l'Atlantique, Saint-Nazaire
- Keel Laid: 17 Aug 1992
- Launched: 14 Mar 1993
- Commissioned: 17 May 1994
- Notes: The Floréal class is a type of light "surveillance frigates" (French: frégate de surveillance) designed for the needs of the French Navy in low-threat environments ordered in 1989. The ships are named after months of the Republican Calendar. They use construction standards of commercial ships. The six French ships of the class, Floréal, Prairial, Nivôse, Ventôse, Vendémiaire and Germinal, remain in active service.
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