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 | Arquebuse-class destroyer |
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
Fronde was one of 20 Arquebuse-class destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.
Service history[]
The Fronde was wrecked in the 1906 typhoon that hit Hong Kong.
The Fronde Memorial, a granite obelisk, was erected in May 1908 in memory of the five sailors of the Fronde who disappeared in the sinking of their boat near the Torpedo Depot, in Kowloon, Hong Kong, during the 1906 Hong Kong typhoon. Initially erected at the corner of Gascoigne Road and Jordan Road, the monument was relocated to Hong Kong Cemetery in Happy Valley[1] during the 1960s.
The Fronde was later salvaged, repaired in the Hung Hom shipyard, and left Hong Kong in March 1907.
As of 1911, Fronde was serving with the Naval Division of the Far East, based in French Indochina. At that time, the unit consisted of the armored cruisers Dupleix and Kléber, the old torpedo cruiser D'Iberville, two other destroyers, six torpedo boats, and four submarines, along with a number of smaller vessels.[2]
She was active during World War I and was decommissioned in 1919.
References[]
- ^ Patricia Lim (2011). Forgotten Souls: A Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery. Hong Kong University Press. p. 448. ISBN 9789622099906. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
- ^ Burgoyne, p. 66.
Bibliography[]
- Burgoyne, Alan H., ed. (1911). "The French Navy". The Navy League Annual. London: John Murray. V: 57–66. OCLC 809125514.
- 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.
- 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.
External links[]
Media related to Fronde (ship, 1902) at Wikimedia Commons
- Arquebuse-class destroyers
- Ships built in France
- 1902 ships