French destroyer Mameluk (1909)
 Mameluk at anchor
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| Name | Mameluk |
| Namesake | Mameluke |
| Builder | Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Nantes |
| Launched | 10 March 1909 |
| Completed | June 1911 |
| Stricken | February 1928 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Spahi-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 530–550 t (522–541 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) |
| Installed power |
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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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Mameluk was one of seven Spahi-class destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the twentieth century.
Design and description
The Spahi class was over 50 percent larger than the preceding
deep load. Their crew numbered 77–79 officers and men.[1]
Mameluk was powered by two
kW) which was intended to give the Spahi class a speed of 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph). During her sea trials, Mameluk reached a speed of 29.75 knots (55.10 km/h; 34.24 mph). The ships carried enough coal to give them a range of 1,000–1,200 nautical miles (1,900–2,200 km; 1,200–1,400 mi) at a cruising speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph).[3]
The primary armament of the Spahi-class ships consisted of six
bow and the other two were on single rotating mounts amidships.[1]
Construction and career
Mameluk was ordered from
launched at their shipyard in Nantes on 13 March 1908. She was completed in June 1911.[4] Tasked with escort duties in the Mediterranean Mameluk was 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.[5]
When the First World War began in August 1914, Mameluk was assigned to the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla (2e escadrille de torpilleurs) of the
Cattaro, Montenegro, on 1 September. Four days later, the fleet covered the evacuation of Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro to the Greek island of Corfu. The 2nd Flotilla bombarded Stončica Lighthouse on the island of Lissa on 19 September. The flotilla escorted multiple small convoys loaded with supplies and equipment to Antivari, beginning in October and lasting for the rest of the year, always covered by the larger ships of the Naval Army in futile attempts to lure the Austro-Hungarian fleet into battle. The Naval Army raided Lissa and the island of Lastovo on 2 November with the destroyer Lansquenet entering Vis harbor and extorting a ransom from the townsmen lest the French bombard the town. As they departed, the French shelled the lighthouse again.[6]
The torpedoing of the
Brindisi, Italy.[7]
Mameluk rammed the French destroyer Fantassin in the Ionian Sea on 5 June 1915, so badly damaging Fantassin that the French destroyer Fauconneau had to scuttle her.[8]
In 1916, Mameluk escorted the
Milo.[5] On 14 December 1917, along with Lansquenet, she sank the Imperial German Navy U-boat UC-38 off Cape Ducato in the Ionian Sea after the submarine torpedoed and sunk the French protected cruiser Châteaurenault.[5]
Mameluk was sold for scrap in 1928.[5]
Citations
- ^ a b c Smigielski, p. 202
- ^ Couhat, p. 95
- ^ Couhat, pp. 95–96
- ^ Couhat, p. 96
- ^ a b c d "MAMELUCK - Contre-torpilleur - marine - Forum Pages d'Histoire: marine - FORUM pages 14-18". pages14-18.mesdiscussions.net. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
- ^ Freivogel, pp. 98–100, 117–121; Prévoteaux, I, pp. 27, 55–56, 59–62
- ^ Prévoteaux, I, p. 113; Roberts, p. 385
- ^ "French Navy". Naval History. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
Bibliography
- Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
- Freivogel, Zvonimir (2019). The Great War in the Adriatic Sea 1914–1918. Zagreb: Despot Infinitus. ISBN 978-953-8218-40-8.
- Prévoteaux, Gérard (2017). La marine française dans la Grande guerre: les combattants oubliés: Tome I 1914–1915 [The French Navy during the Great War: The Forgotten Combatants, Book I 1914–1915]. Collection Navires & Histoire des Marines du Mond. Vol. 23. Le Vigen, France: Éditions Lela presse. ISBN 978-2-37468-000-2.
- Prévoteaux, Gérard (2017). La marine française dans la Grande guerre: les combattants oubliés: Tome II 1916–1918 [The French Navy during the Great War: The Forgotten Combatants, Book II 1916–1918]. Collection Navires & Histoire des Marines du Mond. Vol. 27. Le Vigen, France: Éditions Lela presse. ISBN 978-2-37468-001-9.
- Roberts, Stephen S. (2021). French Warships in the Age of Steam 1859–1914: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5267-4533-0.
- Smigielski, Adam (1985). "France". In Gray, Randal (ed.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. pp. 190–220. ISBN 0-87021-907-3.
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