French frigate Doudart de Lagrée

Doudart de Lagrée (F728) is a Commandant Rivière-class frigate in the French Navy.

Designed to navigate overseas, the escorts of the Doudart de Lagrée were fully air-conditioned.

A posting on a Aviso-escort was a boarding sought after by sailors because it guaranteed campaigns overseas and visits to the country.

Four other similar units were built at Ateliers et Chantiers de Bretagne (ACB) in Nantes for the Portuguese Navy under the class name João Belo.

[4] In 1986, leading up to the Gulf War, she evacuated French nationals to Aden and a port base in Djibouti.