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Name | Pistolet |
Namesake | Pistol |
Ordered | 22 May 1901 |
Builder | Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Nantes |
Laid down | September 1901 |
Launched | 29 May 1903 |
Commissioned | 21 September 1903 |
Stricken | 30 October 1919 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 6 May 1920 |
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Class and type | Arquebuse-class destroyer |
Displacement | 357 t (351 long tons) (deep load) |
Length | 56.58 m (185 ft 8 in) (o/a) |
Beam | 6.38 m (20 ft 11 in) |
Draft | 3.2 m (10 ft 6 in) (deep load) |
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Propulsion |
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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 | 4 officers and 58 enlisted men |
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Pistolet was an Arquebuse-class destroyer built for the French Navy (Marine nationale) in the first decade of the 20th century. Completed in 1903, the ship was initially assigned to the Northern Squadron (Escadre du Nord) in the English Channel. She was transferred to French Indochina the following year and remained there for the next decade. She was present for the Battle of Penang during World War I, but was not able to engage the German cruiser SMS Emden. Pistolet returned to France in 1916 and patrolled the western Mediterranean Sea for the rest of the war. She was ultimately sold to ship breakers in 1920.