French destroyer Framée

French destroyer Framée
Sister ship Pique
Career (France)
Name:	Framée
Namesake:	Migration Period spear
Builder:	Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire
Laid down:	1897
Launched:	21 October 1899
Fate:	Sunk in a collision, 11 August 1900
General characteristics
Class & type:	Framée-class destroyer
Displacement:	319 t (314 long tons)
Length:	58.2 m (190 ft 11 in) o/a
Beam:	6.31 m (20 ft 8 in)
Draft:	3.03 m (9 ft 11 in)
Installed power:	4 water-tube boilers 4,800–5,200 ihp (3,600–3,900 kW)
Propulsion:	2 shafts; 2 Triple-expansion steam engines
Speed:	26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph)
Range:	2,055 nmi (3,806 km; 2,365 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	48
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

Framée was the name ship of her class of four destroyers built for the French Navy around the beginning of the 20th century.

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.