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French destroyer Cognée
Sister ship Trident underway in harbor
Career (France)
Name: Cognée
Namesake: Hatchet
Builder: Arsenal de Toulon
Laid down: 1905
Launched: 26 November 1907
Struck: 27 July 1921
General characteristics
Class & type: Claymore-class destroyer
Displacement: 356 t (350 long tons)
Length: 58 m (190 ft 3 in) (waterline)
Beam: 6.53 m (21 ft 5 in)
Draft: 2.95 m (9 ft 8 in)
Installed power:
  • 6,800 ihp (5,071 kW)
  • 2 Du Temple boilers
Propulsion: 2 shafts; 2 Triple-expansion steam engines
Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range: 2,300 nmi (4,300 km; 2,600 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 60
Armament:
  • 1 × single 65 mm (2.6 in) gun
  • 6 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns
  • 2 × single 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

Cognée was one of 13 Claymore-class destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

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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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