French aviso Jean Moulin

History
France
Name	Jean Moulin
Namesake	Jean Moulin
Builder	Arsenal de Lorient, Lorient
Laid down	15 January 1975
Launched	31 January 1976
Commissioned	11 May 1977
Decommissioned	1999
Identification	Pennant number: F785
Fate	Scrapped, 2015
General characteristics
Class and type	D'Estienne d'Orves-class aviso
Displacement	1,100 t (1,100 long tons) standard 1,270 t (1,250 long tons) full load
Length	80 m (262 ft 6 in) oa 76 m (249 ft 4 in) pp
Beam	10.3 m (33 ft 10 in)
Draught	5.3 m (17 ft 5 in)
Propulsion	2 SEMT Pielstick 12 PC 2 V400 diesel engines 8,900 kW (12,000 bhp), 2 shafts
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	1 Air/surface DRBV 51A sentry radar 1 DRBC 32E fire control radar 1 Decca 1226 navigation radar 1 DUBA 25 hull sonar
Electronic warfare & decoys	1 ARBR 16 radar interceptor 2 Dagaie decoy launchers 1 SLQ-25 Nixie countermeasure system
Armament	2 Exocet MM38 SSMs (removed from French ships when reclassified as OPVs)[1] 1 × 100 mm CADAM gun turret with Najir fire control system and CMS LYNCEA 2 × 20 mm modèle F2 guns 4 × 12.7 mm machine guns 4 × L3 or L5 type torpedoes in four fixed catapults (removed from French ships when reclassified as OPVs)[1] 1 × sextuple Bofors 375 mm rocket launcher (removed from French ships when reclassified as OPVs)[1]

Jean Moulin (F785) was a D'Estienne d'Orves-class aviso in the French Navy.

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

Jean Moulin was laid down on 15 January 1975 at Arsenal de Lorient, Lorient. Launched on 31 January 1976 and commissioned on 11 May 1977.

First based in Brest, she was assigned to Noumea between 1986 and 1987.

She was then reassigned to Brest and then withdrawn from service on 14 May 1999. She was officially decommissioned in 1999, she served from 1999 to 2014 as a breakwater at Lanvéoc-Poulmic.

In 2014, the Jean Moulin left the scene to join the port of Brest and be prepared for its dismantling.

At the beginning of February 2015, she joined the scrapyard in Ghent, Belgium, to be dismantled by the Franco-Belgian group Galloo.