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

Fronde underway in harbor
History
France
Name	Fronde
Namesake	Sling
Ordered	1900
Builder	Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde, Bordeaux
Laid down	January 1901
Launched	17 February 1902
Stricken	30 October 1919
Fate	6 May 1920
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

Service history

The Fronde was wrecked in the 1906 typhoon that hit Hong Kong.

The Fronde Memorial, a granite obelisk, was erected in May 1908 in memory of the five sailors of the Fronde who disappeared in the sinking of their boat near the Torpedo Depot, in Kowloon, Hong Kong, during the 1906 Hong Kong typhoon. Initially erected at the corner of Gascoigne Road and Jordan Road, the monument was relocated to Hong Kong Cemetery in Happy Valley[1] during the 1960s.

The Fronde was later salvaged, repaired in the Hung Hom shipyard, and left Hong Kong in March 1907.

As of 1911, Fronde was serving with the Naval Division of the Far East, based in French Indochina. At that time, the unit consisted of the armored cruisers Dupleix and Kléber, the old torpedo cruiser D'Iberville, two other destroyers, six torpedo boats, and four submarines, along with a number of smaller vessels.[2]

She was active during World War I and was decommissioned in 1919.

References

Bibliography

• Burgoyne, Alan H., ed. (1911). "The French Navy". The Navy League Annual. London: John Murray. V: 57–66. OCLC 809125514.
• Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M. (1979). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.
• Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
• Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.

External links

• Media related to Fronde (ship, 1902) at Wikimedia Commons

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