Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde (literally translated ''Forges and dockyards of the Gironde'') was a French shipbuilder at Lormont near

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectur ...

on the

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

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its ships included the

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''Dédaigneuse'' (1916), s ''Bougainville'' (1931) and ''Rigault de Genouilly'' (1932) and the (1933). In June 1939 the yard had launched another ''Bougainville'' class aviso, the ''Beautemps Beaupré''. At the

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she was still being completed at the yard so on 24 June 1940 the French took her out into the Gironde and scuttled her to prevent her from being captured. Another ''Bougainville'' class aviso, ''La Pérouse'', was on order at the time but was cancelled. On 11 November 1939 the French government ordered twelve s including three from Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde. After 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.

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* Shipyards of France {{France-company-stub