French destroyer Cognée

Sister ship Trident underway in harbor
History
France
Name	Cognée
Namesake	Hatchet
Builder	Arsenal de Toulon
Laid down	1905
Launched	26 November 1907
Stricken	27 July 1921
General characteristics
Class and type	Claymore-class destroyer
Displacement	356 t (350 long tons)
Length	58 m (190 ft 3 in) (waterline)
Beam	6.53 m (21 ft 5 in)
Draft	2.95 m (9 ft 8 in)
Installed power	6,800 ihp (5,071 kW) 2 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 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

Cognée was one of 13 Claymore-class destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

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