FREGATE PRAIRIAL (F731) In Honolulu 2007

[Salvage Sailor]

Prairial is a Floréal-class frigate (French: frégate de surveillance) of the French Navy. She is the second ship of the class, and the second French warship named after the ninth month of the Republican Calendar. The ship was constructed by Chantiers de l'Atlantique at Saint-Nazaire, France, in 1992 and entered service in 1993. Prairial is stationed in the French Pacific territories for patrol duties.

 

Aloha Everyone,

 

The photos were taken in 2007 when the PRIARIAL came up from Tahiti (Papeete) to visit Honolulu.  While touring the frigate, one was engulfed with the scent of fresh Baguettes being baked for the crew which they get twice daily.  She was a very happy vessel...I saw her again a few years later in Papeete, her home port.

 

Visitors on gangway

Quarterdeck

Bridge

Bridge

Ships' Crest

Above the Helo hangar

Helo hangar

Air control station

Main control

Crews Spaces (no women aboard French vessels)

Zodiac station

Ribs (Zodiacs)

Flight Deck

Flight Deck & Air Control upper right - Honolulu Rainbow welcoming the French Sailors

 

US Coast Guard Sand Island across harbor

Honolulu Harbor & Superferry (now gone unfortunately)

Aloha Tower piers

 

Main Gun & Bridge

 

Gig and lifeboats

Gangway (brow)

Air Ops & secondary battery

 

Zodiacs

 

 

Fantail