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French destroyer Fauconneau

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Name
  
Fauconneau

Ordered
  
1896

Struck
  
15 January 1921

Length
  
58 m

Namesake
  
Falconet

Builder
  
Normand, Le Havre

Launched
  
2 April 1900

Weight
  
311 tons

French destroyer Fauconneau

Fate
  
Sold for scrap, 20 April 1921

Fauconneau was a Durandal-class destroyer built for the French Navy in the late 1890s.

During World War I, Fauconneau scuttled the French destroyer Fantassin in the Ionian Sea on 5 June 1915 after Fantassin suffered serious damage in a collision with the French destroyer Mameluck.

References

French destroyer Fauconneau Wikipedia