Pertuisane-class destroyer
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Class overview | |
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Name: | Pertuisane class |
Builders: | Arsenal de Rochefort |
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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) |
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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