![]() Espingole moving at slow speed in harbor
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History | |
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Name | Espingole |
Namesake | French type of blunderbuss |
Ordered | 1896 |
Builder | Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, Le Havre |
Cost | ₣1,690,994 |
Laid down | 1896 or 1897 |
Launched | 28 June 1900 |
Completed | 24 September 1900 |
Stricken | 16 September 1903 |
Fate | Sank after striking a rock, 4 February 1903 |
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Class and type | Durandal-class destroyer |
Displacement | 311 t (306 long tons) |
Length | 57.64 m (189 ft 1 in) |
Beam | 6.3 m (20 ft 8 in) |
Draft | 3.2 m (10 ft 6 in) |
Depth | 4.1 m (13 ft 5 in) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph) |
Range | 2,300 nmi (4,300 km; 2,600 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 64 officers and enlisted men |
Armament |
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Espingole was a Durandal-class destroyer built for the French Navy in the late 1890s. Commissioned in 1900, she saw only a few years of service before running aground and sinking in 1903 off the Côte d'Azur. Her captain was acquitted at his court-martial seven years later. Multiple salvage attempts failed and a legal dispute arising from the last attempt was not settled until 1926.