French destroyer Arquebuse

Arquebus at anchor
History
France
Name	Arquebuse
Namesake	Arquebus
Ordered	1900
Builder	Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, Le Havre
Laid down	1901
Launched	15 November 1902
Stricken	10 May 1920
Fate	Sold for scrap, 2 March 1921
General characteristics
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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

Arquebuse was the name ship of her class of 20 destroyers 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 Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
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