French destroyer Sagaie

A postcard of sister ship Sarbacane underway in 1905
History
France
Name	Sagaie
Namesake	Assegai
Ordered	1900
Builder	Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne-sur-Mer
Laid down	1901
Launched	15 November 1902
Stricken	1 October 1920
Fate	Sold for scrap, 12 April 1921
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	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

Sagaie was one of 20 Arquebuse-class destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

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