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 58.2 m, a beam of 6.31 m, and a maximum draft of 3.03 m. They displaced 319 t at deep load. The two triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller shaft, produced a total of 4200 - 5200 ihp, using steam provided by four water-tube boilers which exhausted through four funnels. The ships had a designed speed of 26 kn, but they reached 25.88 - 27.07 kn during their sea trials. The ships carried up to 97 LT of coal to give them a range of 2055 nmi at 10 kn. Their complement consisted of four officers and forty-four enlisted men.

The Framée-class ships were armed with a single 65 mm gun forward of the bridge and six 47 mm Hotchkiss guns, three on each broadside. They were fitted with two single 381 mm torpedo tubes, one between the funnels and the other on the stern. Two reload torpedoes were also carried.