The company built naval ships. Its products included the
Ottoman Navy s and , the (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), s
Bougainville (1931) and
Rigault de Genouilly (1932) and the (1933). In June 1939 the yard had launched another
Bougainville class aviso, the
Beautemps Beaupré. 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 to prevent her from being captured. Another
Bougainville class aviso,
La Pérouse, was on order at the time but was cancelled. On 11 November 1939 the French government ordered twelve s including three from Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde. After the Fall of France the company abandoned construction of two of these,
La Rieuse and
La Sérieuse, and suspended work on the third, which had been intended to be
La Preneuse. Work on her resumed after 1945 and her intended name was changed to
Commandant Ducuing in 1946. However, construction was finally abandoned in 1948. ==Notes==