French destroyer Rapière
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| History |
 France
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| Name: |
Rapière |
| Namesake: |
Rapier |
| Ordered: |
8 June 1899 |
| Builder: |
Arsenal de Rochefort |
| Laid down: |
2 January 1900 |
| Launched: |
16 July 1901 |
| Struck: |
27 October 1921 |
| Fate: |
Scrapped after 1921 |
| General characteristics |
| Class and type: |
Pertuisane-class 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) |
| Installed power: |
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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 |
| Armament: |
- 1 × single 65 mm (2.6 in) gun
- 6 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns
- 2 × single 380 mm (15 in) torpedo tubes
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Rapière was a Pertuisane-class destroyer built for the French Navy around the beginning of the 20th century.
References
Bibliography
- 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.
- Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
- Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
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- List of destroyers of the French Navy
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