French sloop Commandant Rivière

Commandant Rivière was an Élan-class minesweeping sloop (Avisos dragueur de mines) built for the French Navy during the late 1930s that served in World War II.

History
France
Name	Commandant Rivière
Ordered	4 May 1936
Builder	Ateliers et Chantiers de Provence, Port-de-Bouc
Laid down	20 November 1939
Launched	16 February 1939
In service	12 September 1939
Fate	Scrapped, 1946
General characteristics (as built)
Class & type	Élan-class minesweeping sloop
Displacement	895 t (881 long tons) (deep load)
Length	77.5 m (254 ft 3 in) (o/a)
Beam	8.92 m (29 ft 3 in)
Draught	3.13 m (10 ft 3 in) (deep load)
Installed power	3,430 kW (4,600 bhp)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 diesel engines
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range	10,000 nmi (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph)
Complement	106 (wartime)
Armament	1 × single 100 mm (3.9 in) gun 1 × quadruple, 2 × twin 13.2 mm (0.52 in) machineguns 1 × depth charge rail, 2 × throwers; 40 depth charges