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French destroyer Étendard

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Name
  
Étendard

Laid down
  
December 1905

Construction started
  
December 1905

Builder
  
Dyle et Bacalan

Namesake
  
Banner

Displacement
  
350 t (344 long tons)

Launched
  
20 March 1908

French destroyer Étendard

Fate
  
Sunk by a German destroyer 25 April 1917

Class and type
  
Branlebas-class destroyer

Étendard was one of 10 Branlebas-class destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

During World War I, Étendard was torpedoed and sunk by an Imperial German Navy destroyer in the North Sea off Dunkirk, France, with the loss of all hands on 25 April 1917.

References

French destroyer Étendard Wikipedia


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