Framée-class destroyer

*Framée* class
Class overview

Name:	Framée class
Operators:	French Navy
Preceded by:	Durandal class
Succeeded by:	Rochefortais class
Completed:	4
Lost:	2
Scrapped:	2
General characteristics
Type:	Destroyer
Displacement:	319 t (314 long tons)
Length:	58.2 m (190 ft 11 in) o/a
Beam:	6.31 m (20 ft 8 in)
Draft:	3.03 m (9 ft 11 in)
Installed power:	4 water-tube boilers 4,800–5,200 ihp (3,600–3,900 kW)
Propulsion:	2 shafts; 2 Triple-expansion steam engines
Speed:	26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph)
Range:	2,055 nmi (3,806 km; 2,365 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	48
Armament:	1 × single 65 mm (2.6 in) gun 6 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 2 × single 380 mm (15 in) torpedo tubes

The Framée class was a group of four destroyers built for the French Navy at the beginning of the 20th century. One ship was sunk in a collision shortly after completion, but the others served during the First World War.

Ships

The first two were built at St Nazaire and the second pair at La Seyne-sur-Mer.

Framée - launched 21 October 1899, lost 11 August 1900.
Yatagan - launched 20 July 1900, collided on 3 November 1916 with the British merchant vessel Teviot and sank off Dieppe, Seine-Maritime.^[1]
Pique - launched 31 March 1900, stricken 28 January 1921.
Épée - launched 27 July 1900, stricken 1 October 1920.

Citations

↑ "Major Warships Sunk in World War 1 1916". World War I. Retrieved 22 February 2013.

Bibliography

Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M. (1979). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
Osborne, Eric W. (2005). Destroyers - An Illustrated History of Their Impact. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio. ISBN 1-85109-479-2.
Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). "Classement par types". Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 2, 1870 - 2006. Toulon: Roche. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

External links

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Framée-class destroyers

Framée Pique Yatagan Épée

Preceded by: Durandal class Followed by: Pertuisane class

List of destroyers of the French Navy

French naval ship classes of World War I

Dreadnought battleships	Courbet Bretagne Normandie^X Lyon^X

Pre-dreadnought battleships	Brennus^S Charles Martel^S Carnot^S Jauréguiberry^S Masséna^S Bouvet^S Charlemagne Henri IV^S Iéna^S Suffren^S République Liberté Danton

Armoured cruisers	Dupuy de Lôme^S Amiral Charner Pothuau^S Jeanne d'Arc^S Gueydon Dupleix Gloire Léon Gambetta Jules Michelet^S Ernest Renan^S Edgar Quinet

Protected cruisers	Amiral Cécille^S Forbin Troude Linois Friant Descartes D'Assas D'Entrecasteaux^S Guichen^S Châteaurenault^S Destrées Jurien de la Gravière^S

Destroyers	Durandal Framée Pertuisane Arquebuse Claymore Branlebas Spahi Voltigeur Chasseur Bouclier Bisson Enseigne Roux Aventurier Arabe

Submarines	Sirène Aigrette Oméga Émeraude Circé Pluviôse Brumaire Archimède^S Mariotte^S Amiral Bourgois^S Charles Brun^S Clorinde Gustave Zédé Amphitrite Bellone Dupuy de Lôme Diane Fulton Lagrange Armide O'Byrne

Seaplane carriers	Foudre^S

S Single ship of class C Completed after the war X Cancelled

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