French destroyer Pistolet

A postcard of sister ship Francisque underway
History
France
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
General characteristics
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)
Installed power	2 water-tube boilers 6,300 ihp (4,698 kW)
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	4 officers and 58 enlisted men
Armament	1 × single 65 mm (2.6 in) gun 6 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 2 × single 381 mm (15 in) torpedo tubes

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.