French destroyer Mousquet
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Name | Mousquet |
Namesake | Musket |
Ordered | 1900 |
Builder | Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Nantes |
Laid down | November 1900 |
Launched | 7 August 1902 |
Fate | Sunk by SMS Emden during the Battle of Penang, 28 October 1914 |
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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) |
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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 |
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Mousquet memorial in front of the Church of the Assumption (Penang)
Mousquet was a Arquebuse-class destroyer built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.
Service history[]
In 1911, Mousquet 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.[1]
During World War I, the Imperial German Navy light cruiser SMS Emden sank Mousquet with gunfire off the Straits Settlements during the Battle of Penang on 28 October 1914. Emden rescued 33 survivors from Mousquet.[2]
References[]
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.
Categories:
- Arquebuse-class destroyers
- Ships built in France
- 1902 ships
- Maritime incidents in October 1914
- World War I shipwrecks in the Indian Ocean
- Shipwrecks in the Strait of Malacca