French destroyer Mousqueton

Mousqueton underway
History
France
Name: Mousqueton
Namesake: Musketoon
Ordered: 1901
Builder: Schneider et Cie, Chalon-sur-Saône
Laid down: 1901
Launched: 4 November 1902
Struck: 10 May 1920
General characteristics
Class and type: Arquebuse-class destroyer
Displacement: 323 t (318 long tons)
Length: 58.26 m (191 ft 2 in) (o/a)
Beam: 6.38 m (20 ft 11 in)
Draft: 3.2 m (10 ft 6 in)
Installed power:
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 380 mm (15 in) torpedo tubes

Mousqueton was one of 20 Arquebuse-class destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

On 7 July 1914, Mousqueton collided with the French Navy submarine Calypso in the Mediterranean Sea off Toulon, France. Calypso sank, but her entire crew of 26 was rescued.[1]

References

  1. "French submarine sunk". The Times (40570). London. 8 July 1914. col C, p. 8.

Bibliography

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