| French destroyer Mameluck | |
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| Name: | Mameluck |
| Namesake: | Mameluke |
| Builder: | Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Nantes |
| Launched: | 10 March 1909 |
| Completed: | June 1911 |
| Struck: | February 1928 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Spahi-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 539 t (530 long tons) |
| Length: | 65.8 m (215 ft 11 in) (p/p) |
| Beam: | 6.6 m (21 ft 8 in) |
| Draft: | 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in) |
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| Propulsion: | 2 shafts; 2 Triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed: | 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
| Range: | 1,000–1,200 nmi (1,900–2,200 km; 1,200–1,400 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 77–79 |
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Mameluck was a Spahi-class destroyer of the French Navy.
Service history[]
Tasked with escort duties in the Mediterranean Mameluck assigned to the 1st Squadron in June 1911, and a year later she was assigned to the 2nd Destroyer Squadron, of the 1st Fleet. In March 1913 she was assigned to torpedo squadron patrols and to support submarines in the Adriatic. In 1916 she escorted the submarines Faraday and Le Verrier to Milo.[1]
On 14 December 1917, along with Lansquenet, she sank the German U-boat UC-38 off Cape Ducato in the Ionian Sea after the submarine had torpedoed and sunk the light cruiser Châteaurenault.[1]
Mameluck was sold for scrap in 1928.[1]
Citations[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "MAMELUCK - Contre-torpilleur - marine - Forum Pages d’Histoire: marine - FORUM pages 14-18". pages14-18.mesdiscussions.net. http://pages14-18.mesdiscussions.net/pages1418/Forum-Pages-d-Histoire-aviation-marine/marine-1914-1918/mameluck-contre-torpilleur-sujet_422_1.htm. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
Bibliography[]
- 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.
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). "Classement par types". Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 2, 1870 - 2006. Toulon: Roche. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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