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{{short description|Commandant Rivière-class frigate of the French Navy}}
{{other ships|French ship Commandant Bory}}
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{{Infobox ship career
| Ship country = France
| Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|France|naval}}
| Ship name = ''Commandant Bory''
| Ship namesake = [[Victor Bory]]
| Ship builder = [[Arsenal de Lorient]], [[Lorient]]
| Ship laid down = May 1958
| Ship launched = 11 October 1958
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| Ship commissioned = 5 March 1964
| Ship decommissioned = 1 September 1996
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| Ship identification =*[[Pennant number]]: F726
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| Ship fate = [[Target ship|Sunk as target]], 2004
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* {{convert|2,230|t|LT|order=flip|abbr=on}} full load
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* {{convert|103.0|m|ftin|abbr=on}} [[length between perpendiculars|pp]]
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|Ship draught={{convert|4.3|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
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|Ship propulsion=*2 shafts (4 × [[SEMT-Pielstick]] 12-cylinder [[diesel engine]]s)
* {{convert|16,000|bhp|kW|abbr=on|lk=on}}
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|Ship range={{convert|7500|nmi|lk=in|abbr=on}} at {{convert|16|kn}}
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|Ship boats=2 × LCP landing craft
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|Ship complement=166
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|Ship sensors=*DRBV22A air search radar
*DRBC32C fire control radar
*DUBA3 sonar
*SQS17 sonar
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|Ship armament=*3 × single [[French 100 mm naval gun|{{convert|100|mm|in|abbr=on|0}} guns]] - one gun later replaced by 4 [[Exocet|MM38 Exocet]] missiles
*2 × 30 mm guns
*1 × {{convert|305|mm|in|abbr=on|0}} anti-submarine mortar
*2 × triple {{convert|550|mm|in|abbr=on|0}} [[torpedo tube]]s (6 × L5 torpedoes)
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'''''Commandant Bory'' (F726)''' was a {{sclass|Commandant Rivière|frigate}} in the [[French Navy]].

== Development and design ==
{{Main|Commandant Rivière-class frigate}}

Designed to navigate overseas, the escort escorts were fully air-conditioned, resulting in appreciated comfort, which was far from being the case for other contemporary naval vessels.

A posting on a [[Aviso|Aviso-escort]] was a boarding sought after by sailors because it was a guarantee of campaigning overseas and visiting the country.

Four other similar units were built at [[Ateliers et Chantiers de Bretagne]] (ACB) in Nantes for the [[Portuguese Navy]] under the class name João Belo.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Navires|url=https://www.meretmarine.com/fr/navires/classe/618/commandant-riviere/846|access-date=2021-09-18|website=Mer et Marine|language=fr|archive-date=18 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210918000751/https://www.meretmarine.com/fr/navires/classe/618/commandant-riviere/846|url-status=dead}}</ref>

All French units were decommissioned in the mid-1990s. Three ships were sold to the [[National Navy of Uruguay|Uruguayan Navy]].<ref name="conways47 p117">Gardiner and Chumbley 1995, p. 117.</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Aviso-escorteur Commandant Rivière|url=http://www.netmarine.net/bat/ae/cdtriviere/index.htm|work=netmarine.net|language=French|accessdate=21 June 2015}}</ref>

In 1984, Commandant Rivière underwent a redesign to become an experimentation building. It will retain only a single triple platform of 550mm anti-submarine torpedo tubes and all the rest of the armament was landed, replaced by a single 40mm anti-aircraft gun and two 12.7mm machine guns.

== Construction and career ==
''Commandant Bory'' was [[Keel laying|laid down]] in May 1958 at [[Arsenal de Lorient]], [[Lorient]]. [[Ship naming and launching|Launched]] on 11 October 1958 and [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 5 March 1964.

In 1979, she underwent refit.

She was [[Decommissioned (ship)|decommissioned]] on 1 September 1996, she served from 1996 to 2004 as a breakwater in [[Brest, France|Brest]].<ref name="cf98 p223">Baker 1998, p. 223.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=FS COMMANDANT BORY F726 - ShipSpotting.com - Ship Photos and Ship Tracker|url=http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2139253|access-date=2021-09-17|website=www.shipspotting.com}}</ref>

The ship was sunk as a target in 2004.

== Citations ==
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