Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde was a French shipbuilder at Lormont

Lormont

Lormont is a commune in the Gironde department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.It is a suburb of the city of Bordeaux and is adjacent to it on the northeast. Thus, it is a member of the metropolitan Urban Community of Bordeaux.-Etymology:...

 near Bordeaux

Bordeaux

Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...

 on the Gironde estuary

Gironde estuary

The Gironde is a navigable estuary , in southwest France and is formed from the meeting of the rivers Dordogne and Garonne just below the centre of Bordeaux...

. The company was previously called Usine de construction navale Chaigneau et Bichon, then Chantiers et Ateliers de la Gironde S.A. Ets Schneider, before becoming Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde. It is today the Construction Navale de Bordeaux (CNB).

Ships

The company built naval ships. Its products included the Ottoman Navy

Ottoman Navy

The Ottoman Navy was established in the early 14th century. During its long existence it was involved in many conflicts; refer to list of Ottoman sieges and landings and list of Admirals in the Ottoman Empire for a brief chronology.- Pre-Ottoman:...

 Lûtf-i Celîl class corvettes Lûtf-i Celîl and Hıfz-ı Rahmân (1869), Japanese cruiser Unebi

Japanese cruiser Unebi

was a protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy, designed and built in France by Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde. The Unebi was named after a 199.2 meter tall mountain in Nara prefecture, located near the ancient capital of Asuka...

 (1886) and Ottoman Samsun class destroyers Basra, Samsun, Taşoz and Yarhisar (all 1907). For the French Navy

French Navy

The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...

 its ships included the First World War

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 sloop

Sloop-of-war

In the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. As the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant that the term sloop-of-war actually encompassed all the unrated combat vessels including the...

 Dédaigneuse (1916), Bougainville class aviso

Bougainville class aviso

The Bougainville class was a type of colonial aviso or sloop of the French Navy of the 1930s that were designed to operate in remote locations of the French Empire....

s Bougainville (1931) and Rigault de Genouilly (1932) and La Galissonnière class cruiser

La Galissonnière class cruiser

The La Galissonnière cruiser class was a group of six warships admitted in active service in the French Navy in the 1930s. They were the last French cruisers completed after 1935, until the completion of De Grasse in 1956. They are considered as fast, reliable and successful ships...

 Gloire

French cruiser Gloire

The Gloire was a French light cruiser of the La Galissonnière class.After completing trials, Gloire arrived in Brest on 18 November 1937, then left for French Indochina on 1 December, returning to Brest on 16 April 1938. Gloire joined the 4th Cruiser Division in January 1939, with which she visited...

(1933).

In June 1939 the yard had launched another Bougainville class aviso, the Beautemps Beaupré. At the Fall of France she was still being completed at the yard so on 24 June 1940 the French took her out into the Gironde and scuttled

Scuttling

Scuttling is the act of deliberately sinking a ship by allowing water to flow into the hull.This can be achieved in several ways—valves or hatches can be opened to the sea, or holes may be ripped into the hull with brute force or with explosives...

 her to prevent her from being captured. Another Bougainville class aviso, La Perouse, was on order at the time but was cancelled.

On 11 November 1939 the French government ordered 12 Chamois class avisos including three from Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde. Afte the Fall of France the company abandoned construction of two of these, La Rieuse and La Sérieuse, and suspended work on the third, which had been intended to be La Preneuse. Work on her resumed after 1945 and her intended name was changed to Commandant Ducuing in 1946. However, construction was finally abandoned in 1948.