Pertuisane-class destroyer

300px Flamberge underway in a harbor
Class overview
Name:	Pertuisane class
Builders:	Arsenal de Rochefort
Operators:	French Navy
Preceded by:	Framée class
Succeeded by:	Arquebuse class
Built:	1899–1901
In service:	1900–21
In commission:	1900–21
Completed:	4
Scrapped:	4
General characteristics
Type:	Destroyer
Displacement:	301 long tons (306 t)
Length:	57.64 m (189 ft 1 in) (o/a)
Beam:	6.3 m (20 ft 8 in)
Draft:	3.2 m (10 ft 6 in)
Installed power:	4,800 ihp (3,579 kW) 2 water-tube boilers
Propulsion:	2 shafts; 2 Triple-expansion steam engines
Speed:	26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph)
Range:	2,300 nmi (4,300 km; 2,600 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	52
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 Pertuisane class (sometimes referred to as the Rochefortais class as they were all build in Rochefort) was a group of four destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. They survived the First World War only to be scrapped afterwards.

Ships

• Pertuisane - launched 5 December 1900, stricken 16 March 1923.
• Escopette - launched 20 December 1900, stricken 4 April 1921.
• Flamberge - launched 28 October 1900, stricken 1 October 1920.
• Rapière - launched 16 July 1901, stricken 27 October 1921.

Escopette was sent by the French government on 25 July 1909 as a seaborne escort for Louis Blériot's English Channel-crossing flight.

External links

• The Pertuisane class on navypedia.org