French destroyer Bombarde

A model of Bombarde in the Musée de la Marine, Paris
History
France
Name	Bombarde
Namesake	Bombard
Ordered	1901
Builder	Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne-sur-Mer
Laid down	December 1901
Launched	26 June 1903
Stricken	10 May 1920
Fate	Sold for scrap, 20 April 1921
General characteristics
Class and type	Template:Sclass-
Displacement	323 t (318 long tons)
Length	58.26 m (191 ft 2 in) (o/a)
Beam	6.38 m (20 ft 11 in)
Draft	3.2 m (10 ft 6 in)
Installed power	6,300 ihp (4,698 kW) 2 Normand or Du Temple boilers
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	60
Armament	1 × 65 mm (2.6 in) gun 6 × 47 mm (1.9 in) Hotchkiss guns 2 × 380 mm (15 in) torpedo tubes

Bombarde was one of 20 Template:Sclass-s built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

Bibliography

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• Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allan. 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. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |lastauthoramp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)