Framée-class destroyer


The Framée class consisted of four destroyers built for the French Navy at the beginning of the 20th century. One ship was sunk in a collision shortly after completion, but the others served during the First World War. One ship was sunk in a collision with a British cargo ship in 1916, but the others survived the war to be discarded in 1920–1921.

Design and description

The Framées had an overall length of, a beam of, and a maximum draft of. They displaced at deep load. The two triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller shaft, produced a total of, using steam provided by four water-tube boilers which exhausted through four funnels. The ships had a designed speed of, but they reached during their sea trials. The ships carried up to of coal to give them a range of at. Their complement consisted of four officers and forty-four enlisted men.
The Framée-class ships were armed with a single gun forward of the bridge and six QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss| Hotchkiss guns, three on each broadside. They were fitted with two single torpedo tubes, one between the funnels and the other on the stern. Two reload torpedoes were also carried.

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