Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde

[citation needed] It is today the Construction Navale de Bordeaux (CNB).

Its products included the Ottoman Navy Lütf-ü Celil-class ironclads Lütf-ü Celil and Hifz-ur Rahman, the Unebi (1886) and Ottoman Samsun class destroyers Basra, Samsun, Taşoz and Yarhisar (all 1907).

For the French Navy its ships included the First World War sloop Dédaigneuse (1916),[1] Bougainville-class avisos Bougainville (1931)[2] and Rigault de Genouilly (1932)[3] and the La Galissonnière-class cruiser Gloire (1933).

[2] At the Fall of France she was still being completed at the yard so on 24 June 1940 the French took her out into the Gironde and scuttled her[2] to prevent her from being captured.

[3] On 11 November 1939 the French government ordered twelve Chamois-class avisos[4] including three from Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde.

The Japanese cruiser Unebi was built by the Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde in 1886.
French submarine Henri Fournier , built at Gironde (initially ordered by Romania)