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The Tourville is a type F67 anti-submarine frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1972 and commissioned on June 14, 1975. It is part of a series of three frigates built in the 1967s. The other ships of this series are the Duguay-Trouin (decommissioned in 1999) and the De Grasse (decommissioned in 2013).

The Tourville was withdrawn from active service on June 16, 2011 and definitively decommissioned on November 10, 2011. Since December 2012, it has been moored on a safe at the Landévennec Ship Cemetery near Brest, serving as a breakwater at Lanvéoc-Poulmic since October 2014 while awaiting its deconstruction.

Sponsored by the Sovereign Order of Malta, the frigate Tourville has undergone various modifications throughout its career. Its armament included a Crotale anti-aircraft system, MM38 Exocet missiles for anti-shipping, a Malafon torpedo missile ramp, 100 mm turrets, 20 mm anti-aircraft guns, 12.7 mm Browning M2 machine guns and cradles for L5 mod 4 anti-submarine torpedoes.

In terms of detection equipment, the Tourville had surface and air surveillance radars, a fire control radar, navigation radars, hull and towed sonars, as well as a torpedo warning device. . For electronic warfare, it was equipped with a jammer, a radar interceptor and Syllex decoy launchers. In terms of communications, the ship used HF, UHF, VHF and SHF links, as well as the Syracuse 2 and Inmarsat systems.