French destroyer Mameluck

History
France
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 and 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)
Installed power:
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
Armament:
  • 6 × single 65 mm (2.6 in) gun
  • 3 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

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. [1]

During World War I, Mameluck rammed the French destroyer Fantassin in the Ionian Sea on 5 June 1915, so badly damaging Fantassin that the French destroyer Fauconneau consequently scuttled her.[2]

In 1916, Mameluck escorted the submarines Faraday and Le Verrier to Milo.[1] 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.[1]

Mameluck was sold for scrap in 1928.[1]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 "MAMELUCK - Contre-torpilleur - marine - Forum Pages d'Histoire: marine - FORUM pages 14-18". pages14-18.mesdiscussions.net. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
  2. ↑ "French Navy". Naval History. Retrieved 21 February 2013.

Bibliography


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/13/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.