French destroyer Bélier

Bélier
History
France
Name:	Bélier
Namesake:	Battering ram
Ordered:	1901
Builder:	Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Nantes
Laid down:	September 1901
Launched:	25 May 1903
Struck:	25 January 1921
Fate:	Sold for scrap, 20 May 1922
General characteristics
Class and type:	Arquebuse-class destroyer
Displacement:	323 t (318 long tons)
Length:	58.26 m (191 ft 2 in) (o/a)
Beam:	6.38 m (20 ft 11 in)
Draft:	3.2 m (10 ft 6 in)
Installed power:	6,300 ihp (4,698 kW) 2 Normand or Du Temple boilers
Propulsion:	2 shafts; 2 Triple-expansion steam engines
Speed:	28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range:	2,300 nmi (4,300 km; 2,600 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 × 380 mm (15 in) torpedo tubes

Bélier was one of 20 Arquebuse-class destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

References

Bibliography

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• 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.