BATRAL-class landing ship

The Bâtiment de Transport Léger ("Light ferry ship") are small landing ships of the French Navy. They are able to ferry over 400 tons of matériel, in the hangar and on the deck. Loading and unloading can be done from a harbour or from a beach. Two flat-bottom vessels allow unloading fifty men and light vehicles each. The accommodations are designed for a Guépard-type intervention unit (five officers, fifteen petty officers and 118 men), or for typical company-sized armoured units.

A helicopter landing deck allows landing for light helicopters, and transfer to and from heavy helicopters.

The Chilean Navy purchased the plans and built two ships in the ASMAR shipyards in the early 1980s.

Ships

 * French Navy
 * Champlain decommissioned
 * Francis Garnier decommissioned
 * Dumont D'Urville
 * Jacques Cartier decommissioned
 * La Grandière


 * Chilean Navy
 * Rancagua
 * Chacabuco
 * Maipo decommissioned in 1998, later sold to civil operator


 * Côte d'Ivoire Navy
 * L'Elephant


 * Gabon Navy
 * President el Hadj Omar Bongo (L05)


 * Royal Moroccan Navy
 * Daoud Ben Aicha (402)
 * Ahmed Es Skali (403)
 * Abou Abdallah El Ayachi (404)