Pertuisane-class destroyer

Flamberge underway in a harbor
Class overview
Name:	Pertuisane class
Builders:	Arsenal de Rochefort
Operators:	French Navy
Preceded by:	Framée class
Succeeded by:	Arquebuse class
Built:	1899–1901
In service:	1900–21
In commission:	1900–21
Completed:	4
Scrapped:	4
General characteristics
Type:	Destroyer
Displacement:	301 long tons (306 t)
Length:	57.64 m (189 ft 1 in) (o/a)
Beam:	6.3 m (20 ft 8 in)
Draft:	3.2 m (10 ft 6 in)
Installed power:	4,800 ihp (3,579 kW) 2 water-tube boilers
Propulsion:	2 shafts; 2 Triple-expansion steam engines
Speed:	26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph)
Range:	2,300 nmi (4,300 km; 2,600 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	52
Armament:	1 × single 65 mm (2.6 in) gun 6 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 2 × single 380 mm (15 in) torpedo tubes

The Pertuisane class (sometimes referred to as the Rochefortais class as they were all build in Rochefort) was a group of four destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. They survived the First World War only to be scrapped afterwards.

Escopette was sent by the French government on 25 July 1909 as a seaborne escort for Louis Blériot's English Channel-crossing flight.