A postcard of Mousquet underway
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History | |
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France | |
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 |
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) |
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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 was a Arquebuse-class destroyer built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.
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.