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French Navy - Marine Nationale
Prevaux class Offshore Patrol Vessel - OPV
Patrouilleur Hauturier (PH)
 
  
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03/26
Units:
P ??? FS Trolley de Prevaux
P ??? FS D’Estienne d’Orves
P ??? FS Emilienne Moreau
P ??? FS Premier maitre Yves Nonen
P ??? FS Commandant Ducuing
P ??? FS Quartier-maitre Anquetil
P ??? FS Jeanne Bohec
P ??? FS Andree Borrel
P ??? FS Ile de Sein
P ??? FS Jacqueline Carsignol
 
Specifications:
 
 Builders:
Piriou Shipyard, Concarneau
Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie (CMN), Cherbourg
Socarenam Shipbuilding, Calais
 
Displacement: 2,400 tons
Length: 92 m (302 feet)
Beam: 14.2 m (47 ft)
Draft: 3.6 m (12 ft)
Speed: 21 knots (39 km/h), cruising
Range: 6,000 NMI (11,000 km) / endurance: 30 days
Complement: 54 (ship) accomodations for 84

Propulsion:
DIESEL-ELECTRIC
2 x MAN diesel generators
2 x electric motors
2 x 3,850 kW
2 shafts / 2 propellers
 
Armament:
1 x KNDS RapidFire Naval Remote Weapon System
1 x MBDA SIMBAD RC SAM launcher (Mistral missiles)
 
Systems:
Naval Group SETIS-C combat management system (CMS)
Thales NS54 4D AESA multi-function X-band naval radar
TSA 3522 Identification Friend or Foe (IFF)
Thales BLUEWATCHER hull-mounted sonar
 
Aviation:
flight deck and hangar
 for
 1 x H160M Guepard
1 x VSR700 UAV

Boats:
1 x 7 m (23 ft) RHIB
2 x 9.3 m (31 ft) RHIB
  
 
Patrouilleurs Hauturiers / PH (English: Offshore Patrol Vessel), initially known as the Patrouilleurs Océanique (English: Ocean Patrol) program, the program was unveiled in 2020 with the goal to design and develop a 10-ship series of patrol vessels to replace the aging Flamant, D'Estienne d'Orves, and P400-class patrol vessels. The ships' roles would include maritime patrol, protecting national waters, submarine escort, evacuation, surveillance, interception, protection of French interests, and other miscellaneous duties.

Designed by Naval Group, the first 7 ships were ordered in 2023 from Piriou Shipyard, Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie (CMN), and Socarenam. Construction of this batch began in 2024 and all 7 are estimated to be in delivered by 2030. The remaining 3 ships are planned to be ordered as part of a later budget and are planned to enter service by 2035.
 
Ship data:

P ??? FS Trolley de Prevaux
STATUS:
 Builder: Piriou Shipyard, Concarneau
 Laid down: May 22, 2024
 Launched: February 5, 2026
 Commissioned: 2027 ?
 OUTFITTING + TRIALS

 Namesake:
Contre-Amiral Jacques Marie Charles Trolley de Prévaux (2 April 1888 - 19 August 1944)
 ... was a French Navy officer and member of the Resistance. After a brilliant career in the Navy as a pioneer of the Aeronavale and having risen to the rank of captain,
he fell out of favour with the Vichy Regime for his sympathies with the Resistance.
He became a leader of an intelligence network focused on the Mediterranean, and was eventually betrayed and assassinated by the Nazis, along with his wife, Lotka Leitner.
Both were posthumously and jointly made Compagnons in the Ordre de la Liberation.
 

P ??? FS D’Estienne d’Orves
STATUS:
Builder: Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie (CMN), Cherbourg
Laid down: April 2025
Launched:
Commissioned:
UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Namesake:
Henri Louis Honoré, comte d'Estienne d'Orves (5 June 1901 - 29 August 1941)
... was a French Navy officer and one of the major heroes of the French Resistance, said to be the "first martyr of Free France".
  

P ??? FS Jeanne Bohec
STATUS:
Builder: Socarenam Shipbuilding, Calais
Laid down: June 2025
Launched:
Commissioned:
UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Namesake:
Jeanne Bohec (16 February 1919 - 11 January 2010)
... was a French Resistance fighter.
After enlisting in the Women's Volunteer Corps of the Free French Forces, she joined the Central Intelligence and Action Bureau and learned sabotage techniques.
She parachuted into occupied France in February 1944 and then conducted her work in the resistance by criss-crossing Brittany by bicycle; hence, her nickname “the bomber on a bicycle”.
She trained teams of saboteurs, organized and took part in several sabotage operations and participated in the liberation of France.
  

P ??? FS Emilienne Moreau
STATUS:
Builder:
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned:
I

Namesake:
Émilienne Moreau-Evrard (4 June 1898 - 5 January 1971)
... was a French heroine of World War I, a high-profile female member of the "Brutus" Resistance network during World War II and later,
a member of the Provisional Consultative Assembly. Moreover, she is one of only six women recipients of the Ordre de la Libération.
 

P ??? FS Premier maitre Yves Nonen

 Builder:
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned:
I
Yves Nonen (August 5, 1916 - November 24, 1944)
... was a petty officer in the Free French Forces during the Second World War. He was a Companion of the Liberation.
  

P ??? FS Commandant Ducuing
STATUS:
Builder:
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned:
I

Namesake:
Gabriel Auguste Ferdinand Ducuing (December 22, 1885 - May 25, 1940)
... was a French naval officer, airplane pilot and balloonist.
In March 1940 he was given the command of the defense post at Cape Gris-Nez (Côte d'Opale/Pas-de-Calais).
Surrounded on all sides, Ducuing fought courageously but was killed on May 25, 1940.
  

P ??? FS Quartier-maitre Anquetil
STATUS:
Builder:
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned:
I

Namesake:
Quartermaster Bernard Anquetil (December 20, 1916 - October 24, 1941)
... was a French resistance fighter, born in Bernières-d'Ailly in Calvados, shot and died at Fort Mont-Valérien (Paris).
  

P ??? FS Andree Borrel
STATUS:
Builder:
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned:
I

Namesake:
Andrée Raymonde Borrel (18 November 1919 - 6 July 1944)
... code named Denise, was a French woman who served in the French Resistance and as an agent for Britain's clandestine Special Operations Executive in World War II.
The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany.
SOE agents allied themselves with resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England.
 

P ??? FS Ile de Sein
STATUS:
Builder:
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned:
I

Namesake:

Île de Sein
... is a Breton island in the Atlantic Ocean, off Finistère, eight kilometres from the Pointe du Raz, from which it is separated by the Raz de Sein. Its Breton name is Enez-Sun.
The island, with its neighbouring islets, forms the commune of Île-de-Sein in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.
 

P ??? FS Jacqueline Carsignol
STATUS:
Builder:
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned:
I

Namesake:
Enseigne de vaisseau Jacqueline Carsignol (1913 - 1996)
... was a French resistance fighter and heroine who commanded a team of ambulance drivers integrated into the armored marine rifle regiment,
with which they went to Germany in 1944.
  
 
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future FS Trolley de Prevaux launching at Piriou Shipyard, Concarneau - February 5, 2026

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future FS Trolley de Prevaux launching at Piriou Shipyard, Concarneau - February 5, 2026

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future FS Trolley de Prevaux launching at Piriou Shipyard, Concarneau - February 5, 2026



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