Chantiers Navals Français Explained

Chantiers Navals Français was a French shipbuilding company founded in 1917 located in Blainville-sur-Orne in the port of Caen.[1]

The company mainly built merchant ships but also built destroyers and submarines for the French Navy between 1924 and 1933 and the destroyers and ORP Burza for the Polish Navy.[1]

The yard closed in 1954.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Winklareth. Robert. Naval Shipbuilders of the World. 2000. Chatham Publishing. London. 186176121X. 221.
  2. Book: Patrick. David. Un port dans la plaine : de Caen à Ouistreham, Amfreville,. 2011. Éditions du Bout du monde. 978-2917854044. 92-109.

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