French frigate Vendémiaire (F734)

The Vendémiaire is a light monitoring frigate ("frégate de surveillance") of the French Marine Nationale. She is the fifth ship of the, and is named after Vendémiaire, the first month of the Republican Calendar.

Operational history
Vendémiaire was deployed to East Timor as part of the Australian-led INTERFET peacekeeping taskforce from 20 September to 17 November 1999.

Vendémiaire and her sister ship Nivose are reasonably frequent visitors to Wellington.

The ship went on a tour of Chinese ports in 2011, stopping at Canton, Chiang Tao, Hong Kong and Shanghai. It was opened to the public 17-4-11 in Hong Kong.

In October 2013 participated in the International Fleet Review 2013 in Sydney, Australia.