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{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2013}}Bougainville}}>{{Infobox ship image| Ship image= | Ship caption=
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=France | France|naval}} | Ship name=Bougainville | Ship namesake=Admiral Louis Antoine de Bougainville | Ship ordered= | Ship builder= | Ship laid down=25 November 1929 | Ship launched=25 April 1931 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=15 February 1933 | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship honours= | Ship fate=9 November 1940 sunk | Ship status= | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Bougainville|aviso}} | Ship displacement=1,970 tonnes | 103.7|m|abbr=on}} | 12.7|m|abbr=on}} | 4.5|m|abbr=on}} | Ship propulsion=2 Diesel engines 3,200 | 17|kn}} | Ship range= | Ship complement= | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=*3 × 138mm guns model 1927 (single mountings)- 4 × 37mm AA guns (single mountings)
- 6 × 13.2 mm machine guns
- capable of carrying 50 mines
| Ship armour= | Ship armor= | Ship aircraft= | Ship aircraft facilities= | Ship notes=
}} | Bougainville was a {{sclass-|Bougainville|aviso}} of the French Navy launched on 25 April 1931 and commissioned on 15 February 1933.[1][2] The ship was designed to operate from French colonies in Asia and Africa and initially stationed in the Indian Ocean.[2] In 1935 it was transferred for service in the eastern and southern Mediterranean, and in early 1939 to Djibouti, returning to Toulon escorting a group of submarines after the outbreak of World War II.[2]It sided with Vichy France and was sunk by off Libreville by its sister ship {{ship|French aviso|Savorgnan de Brazza||2}} on 9 November 1940 in the Battle of Gabon. Although refloated in March 1941, Bougainville sank again and was finally broken up in 1952.[2] References 1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.netmarine.net/bat/divers/bougainv/ancien.htm |title=Bougainville |publisher=Netmarine.net |date= |accessdate=2011-12-31}}
2. ^1 2 3 {{cite book|last1=Roche|first1=Jean-Michel|title=Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la Flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours: Tome II|date=2013|publisher=JMR|isbn=978-2-9525917-3-7|language=French}}
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