French destroyer Framée

Sister ship Pique
History
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 collision 11 August 1900
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:	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.

Framée was sunk in a collision on 11 August 1900.

References

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. 

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1900
Shipwrecks	5 Jan: Ibex 30 Jun: Bremen, Main, Saale 11 Aug: Framée 16 Nov: T. H. Camp 16 Dec: SMS Gneisenau Unknown date: Copenhagen, Manchester
Other incidents	4 Feb: HMS Repulse 30 Jun: 1900 Hoboken Docks fire, Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse 12 Sep: Coptic 18 Sep: Minnehaha 3 Oct: Berkeley, Columbia 20 Oct: Kommandøren
1899 1901