French destroyer Obusier

Sister ship Trident underway in harbor
History
France
Name	Obusier
Namesake	Howitzer
Builder	Arsenal de Rochefort
Laid down	10 May 1904
Launched	9 March 1905
Stricken	27 May 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 Normand 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

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

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