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{{short description|D'Estienne d'Orves-class aviso of the French Navy}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}
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| Ship country = France
| Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|France|naval}}
| Ship name = ''Jean Moulin''
| Ship namesake = [[Jean Moulin]]
| Ship builder = [[Arsenal de Lorient]], [[Lorient]]
| Ship laid down = 15 January 1975
| Ship launched = 31 January 1976
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| Ship commissioned =  11 May 1977
| Ship decommissioned = 1999
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| Ship identification =*[[Pennant number]]: F785
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| Ship fate = [[Ship breaking|Scrapped]], 2015
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{{Infobox ship characteristics
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|Ship displacement= * {{convert|1,100|LT|t|order=flip|lk=on|abbr=on}} standard 
* {{convert|1,250|LT|t|order=flip|abbr=on}} full load
|Ship length=* {{Convert|80|m|ftin|abbr=on}} [[Length overall|oa]]
* {{convert|76|m|ftin|abbr=on}} [[Length between perpendiculars|pp]]
|Ship beam={{Convert|10.3|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
|Ship draught={{Convert|5.3|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
|Ship propulsion=* 2 [[SEMT Pielstick]] 12 PC 2 V400 [[diesel engine]]s
* {{Convert|12000|bhp|kW|lk=on|order=flip|abbr=on}}, 2 shafts
|Ship speed={{convert|23.5|kn|lk=in}}
|Ship range={{convert|4500|nmi|lk=in|abbr=on}} at {{convert|15|kn}}
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|Ship complement=90
|Ship EW=* 1 ARBR 16 radar interceptor
* 2 Dagaie decoy launchers
* 1 [[SLQ-25 Nixie]] countermeasure system
|Ship armament=* 2 [[Exocet]] MM38 [[Surface-to-surface missile|SSMs]] (removed from French ships when reclassified as OPVs)<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.asafrance.fr/item/patrouilleurs-les-avisos-francais-sur-tous-les-fronts.html|title=Patrouilleurs: Les avisos français sur tous les fronts. |trans-title=Patrol ships: French Avisos on all fronts. |language=French |date=26 January 2017 |website=asafrance.fr |access-date=6 June 2020}}</ref>
* 1 × [[French 100 mm naval gun|100 mm CADAM gun turret]] with Najir fire control system and CMS LYNCEA
* 2 × [[20 mm modèle F2 gun]]s
* 4 × 12.7 mm machine guns
* 4 × L3 or L5 type [[torpedo]]es in four fixed catapults (removed from French ships when reclassified as OPVs)<ref name="auto"/>
* 1 × sextuple [[Bofors 375mm anti submarine rockets|Bofors 375 mm rocket launcher]] (removed from French ships when reclassified as OPVs)<ref name="auto"/>
|Ship sensors=* 1 Air/surface DRBV 51A sentry radar
* 1 DRBC 32E fire control radar
* 1 Decca 1226 navigation radar
* 1 DUBA 25 hull sonar
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'''''Jean Moulin'' (F785)''' was a {{sclass|D'Estienne d'Orves|aviso}} in the [[French Navy]].

== Design ==
{{Main|D'Estienne d'Orves-class aviso}}
Armed by a crew of 90 sailors, these vessels have the reputation of being among the most difficult in bad weather. Their high windage makes them particularly sensitive to pitch and roll as soon as the sea is formed.

Their armament, consequent for a vessel of this tonnage, allows them to manage a large spectrum of missions. During the [[Cold War]], they were primarily used to patrol the continental shelf of the [[Atlantic Ocean]] in search of [[Soviet Navy]] submarines. Due to the poor performance of the [[Sonar|hull sonar]], as soon as an echo appeared, the reinforcement of an ASM frigate was necessary to chase it using its towed [[Variable Depth Sonar|variable depth sonar]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-10-23|title=Euronaval: First details of the Patrouilleurs Océanique (PO) platform unveiled|url=https://www.navalnews.com/event-news/euronaval-2020/2020/10/euronaval-first-details-of-the-patrouilleurs-oceanique-po-platform-unveiled/|access-date=2021-09-17|website=Naval News|language=en-US}}</ref>

Their role as patrollers now consists mainly of patrols and assistance missions, as well as participation in [[United Nations|UN missions]] (blockades, flag checks) or similar marine policing tasks (fight against drugs, extraction of nationals, fisheries control, etc.). The mer-mer 38 or mer-mer 40 missiles have been landed, but they carry several machine guns and machine guns, more suited to their new missions.

Its construction cost was estimated at 270,000,000 [[French franc]]s.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Quid 1996|publisher=|year=|isbn=2-221-08055-6|pages=2036}}</ref>

== Construction and career ==
''Jean Moulin'' was [[Keel laying|laid down]] on 15 January 1975 at [[Arsenal de Lorient]], [[Lorient]]. [[Ship naming and launching|Launched]] on 31 January 1976 and [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 11 May 1977.

First based in Brest, she was assigned to [[Nouméa|Noumea]] between 1986 and 1987.

She was then reassigned to [[Brest, France|Brest]] and then withdrawn from service on 14 May 1999. She was officially [[Decommissioned (ship)|decommissioned]] in 1999, she served from 1999 to 2014 as a breakwater at [[Lanvéoc-Poulmic]].

In 2014, the Jean Moulin left the scene to join the port of Brest and be prepared for its dismantling.

At the beginning of February 2015, she joined the scrapyard in [[Ghent]], [[Belgium]], to be dismantled by the Franco-Belgian group [[Galloo Island|Galloo]].

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