French aviso Amyot d'Inville
_in_%C4%B0zmir_3.jpg) TCG Bartın (F-504)
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| History | |
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 France | |
| Name | Amyot d'Inville |
| Namesake | Hubert Amyot D'Inville |
| Builder | Arsenal de Lorient, Lorient |
| Laid down | 1 September 1973 |
| Launched | 30 November 1974 |
| Commissioned | 13 October 1976 |
| Decommissioned | 1999 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Sold to Turkey, 2000 |
 Turkey | |
| Name | Bartın |
| Namesake | Bartın |
| Acquired | November 2000 |
| Commissioned | 26 June 2002 |
| Identification | Pennant number: F-504 |
| Status | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | D'Estienne d'Orves-class aviso |
| Displacement | |
| Length | |
| Beam | 10.3 m (33 ft 10 in) |
| Draught | 5.3 m (17 ft 5 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 23.5 knots (43.5 km/h; 27.0 mph) |
| Range | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 90 |
| Sensors and processing systems |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys |
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Amyot d'Inville (F782) is a D'Estienne d'Orves-class aviso in the French Navy. She was transferred to the Turkish Navy as TCG Bartın (F-504).
Design
[edit]Armed by a crew of 90 sailors, these vessels have the reputation of being among the most difficult in bad weather. Their high windage makes them particularly sensitive to pitch and roll as soon as the sea is formed.
Their armament, consequent for a vessel of this tonnage, allows them to manage a large spectrum of missions. During the Cold War, they were primarily used to patrol the continental shelf of the Atlantic Ocean in search of Soviet Navy submarines. Due to the poor performance of the hull sonar, as soon as an echo appeared, the reinforcement of an ASM frigate was necessary to chase it using its towed variable depth sonar.
Their role as patrollers now consists mainly of patrols and assistance missions, as well as participation in UN missions (blockades, flag checks) or similar marine policing tasks (fight against drugs, extraction of nationals, fisheries control, etc.). The mer-mer 38 or mer-mer 40 missiles have been landed, but they carry several machine guns and machine guns, more suited to their new missions.
Its construction cost was estimated at 270,000,000 French francs.[2]
Construction and career
[edit]Service in the French Navy
[edit]Amyot d'Inville was laid down on 1 September 1973 at Arsenal de Lorient, Lorient. Launched on 30 November 1974 and commissioned on 13 October 1976.
She was first transferred to Brest to the 2nd D.I.V.A.V.I, in 1982 she joined the 1st D.I.V.A.V.I in Cherbourg.[3]
In 1987, she carried out a mission in the Antilles-Guyana then was assigned to fisheries control in Newfoundland.
In 1992, she joined the G.A.S.M in Brest and carried out various missions in West Africa.
In 1999, she left for the Antilles-Guyana area and again for West Africa for her final cruise.
Service in the Turkish Naval Forces
[edit]Bartın was purchased from France in November 2000 and arrived in Turkey on 3 June 2002 after salvage work was carried out at DCN. She was then commissioned on the 26th later that month.
On 27 March 2018, she transited Bosporus towards the Black Sea to join Deniz Yıldızı-2018 naval exercise.[4]
Citations
[edit]- ^ a b c "Patrouilleurs: Les avisos français sur tous les fronts" [Patrol ships: French Avisos on all fronts.]. asafrance.fr (in French). 26 January 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ Quid 1996. p. 2036. ISBN 2-221-08055-6.
- ^ "* AMYOT D'INVILLE (1976/1999) *". www.postenavalemilitaire.com (in French). Retrieved 17 September 2021.
- ^ "Turkish Navy Burak class corvette (type A69) TCG Bartın F504 (x-MarineNationale FS Amyot d'Inville x-F782) transits Bosphorus towards BlackSea to join DenizYıldızı2018 naval exercise". Twitter. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
