She was ordered under the 1937 programme and launched on 22 June 1939 as Ville d'Ys, but completed as La Grandière.

She served in the South Pacific Area during the Second World War.

then fought in the Korean War, taking part in the Inchon Landing.

She then returned to surveillance missions in the French territories in the Pacific.

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