French destroyer Bison (1928)

The French destroyer Bison was a Guépard-class destroyer (contre-torpilleurs) built for the French Navy during the 1920s.

Construction and career
Bison served during the Norwegian Campaign in World War II. While evacuating Allied troops at Namsos, the ship came under German air attack and exploded after being struck in the forward magazine by a bomb, dropped by a Ju 87 from I./StG 1, killing 136 members of her crew and causing the ship to sink by the bow.

The British destroyer HMS Afridi (F07) came to the aid of the surviving crew, rescuing sixty-nine of the French sailors in the water and sinking the hull of the ship. However, Afridi soon came under air attack and sank as well, and among the dead were thirty-five of the surviving crew of Bison. The surviving crews from Bison, Afridi, and the troops they had evacuated were rescued by the destroyers HMS Imperial (D09), HMS Griffin (H31) and HMS Grenade (H86).