Lieutenant de vaisseau Le Hénaff (F789) is a D'Estienne d'Orves-class aviso in the French Navy.
Their high windage makes them particularly sensitive to pitch and roll as soon as the sea is formed.
During the Cold War, they were primarily used to patrol the continental shelf of the Atlantic Ocean in search of Soviet Navy submarines.
[2] Their role as patrollers now consists mainly of patrols and assistance missions, as well as participation in UN missions (blockades, flag checks) or similar marine policing tasks (fight against drugs, extraction of nationals, fisheries control, etc.).
On 5 March 2019, the ship left Brest with her 100 crew members for the Gulf of Guinea.