French destroyer Fanfare

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History
France
Name:	Fanfare
Namesake:	Fanfare
Builder:	Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, Le Havre
Laid down:	November 1905
Launched:	19 December 1907
Struck:	28 September 1925
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)

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

References

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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.