French destroyer Fauconneau

Sister ship Espingole moving at slow speed in harbor
History
France
Name:	Fauconneau
Namesake:	Falconet
Ordered:	1896
Builder:	Normand, Le Havre
Launched:	2 April 1900
Struck:	15 January 1921
Fate:	Sold for scrap, 20 April 1921
General characteristics
Class and type:	Durandal-class destroyer
Displacement:	311 t (306 long tons)
Length:	57.64 m (189 ft 1 in)
Beam:	6.3 m (20 ft 8 in)
Draft:	3.2 m (10 ft 6 in)
Depth:	4.1 m (13 ft 5 in)
Installed power:	5,200 PS (3,800 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:	64 officers and enlisted men
Armament:	1 × 65 mm (2.6 in) gun 6 × 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 2 × 381 mm (15.0 in) torpedo tubes

Fauconneau was a Durandal-class destroyer built for the French Navy in the late 1890s.

During World War I, Fauconneau scuttled the French destroyer Fantassin in the Ionian Sea on 5 June 1915 after Fantassin suffered serious damage in a collision with the French destroyer Mameluck.^[1]

References

Bibliography

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• Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M. (1979). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5. 
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