French destroyer Fronde

Fronde underway in harbor
History
France
Name	Fronde
Namesake	Sling
Ordered	1900
Builder	Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde, Bordeaux
Laid down	January 1901
Launched	17 February 1902
Stricken	30 October 1919
Fate	6 May 1920
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

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

Wreck

Wreck of the Fronde in Hong Kong

The Fronde was wrecked in the 1906 typhoon that hit Hong Kong.

Bibliography

• Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M. (1979). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |lastauthoramp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
• 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)

External links

• Media related to Fronde (ship, 1902) at Wikimedia Commons