French destroyer Yatagan
 Yataghan dressed for a review
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| History | |
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 France | |
| Name | Yatagan |
| Namesake | Yatagan |
| Builder | Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire |
| Laid down | 1897 |
| Launched | 27 July 1900 |
| Fate | Sunk in a collision, 3 November 1916 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and 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 |
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| 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 |
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Yatagan was one of four
First World War, she was sunk after a collision with a British cargo ship
in 1916.
Design and description
The Framées had an
propeller shaft, produced a total of 4,200–5,200 indicated horsepower (3,132–3,878 kW), using steam provided by four water-tube boilers. The ships had a designed speed of 26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph), but Yatagan reached 27.07 knots (50.13 km/h; 31.15 mph) during her sea trials on 5 October 1900. The ships carried enough coal to give them a range of 2,055 nautical miles (3,806 km; 2,365 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph). Their complement consisted of four officers and forty-four enlisted men.[1]
The Framée-class ships were armed with a single 65-millimeter (2.6 in) gun forward of the bridge and six 47-millimeter (1.9 in) Hotchkiss guns, three on each broadside. They were fitted with two single 381-millimeter (15 in) torpedo tubes, one between the funnels and the other on the stern.[2] Two reload torpedoes were also carried.[3]
Construction and career
Yatagan was ordered from
laid down in 1897 at its shipyard in Nantes. The ship was launched on 20 July 1800.[2] The ship served on fishery protection duties during the war. While thus engaged, she collided with the British steamer Teviot and sank in the English Channel off Dieppe, France, on 3 November 1916.[4][5]
References
- ^ Couhat, p. 83
- ^ a b Campbell, p. 326
- ^ Couhat, p. 81
- ^ "Major Warships Sunk in World War 1 1916". World War I. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
- ^ "French Navy". Naval History. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
Bibliography
- Campbell, N. J. M. (1979). "France". In Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M. (eds.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. pp. 283–333. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
- 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.
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