French destroyer Étendard

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History
France
Name:	Étendard
Namesake:	Banner
Builder:	Dyle et Bacalan, Bordeaux
Laid down:	December 1905
Launched:	20 March 1908
Fate:	Sunk by a German destroyer 25 April 1917
General characteristics
Class and type:	Branlebas-class destroyer
Displacement:	350 t (344 long tons)
Length:	58 m (190 ft 3 in) (p/p)
Beam:	6.28 m (20 ft 7 in)
Draft:	2.96 m (9 ft 9 in)
Installed power:	6,800 ihp (5,071 kW) 2 Normand or Du Temple boilers
Propulsion:	2 shafts; 2 Triple-expansion steam engines
Speed:	27.5 knots (50.9 km/h; 31.6 mph)
Range:	2,100 nmi (3,900 km; 2,400 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	60
Armament:	1 × 65 mm (2.6 in) gun 6 × 47 mm (1.9 in) Hotchkiss guns 2 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes
Armor:	Waterline belt: 20 mm (0.8 in)

Étendard was one of 10 Branlebas-class destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

During World War I, Étendard was torpedoed and sunk by an Imperial German Navy destroyer in the North Sea off Dunkirk, France, with the loss of all hands on 25 April 1917.^[1]

References

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.