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

A postcard of sister ship Francisque underway
History
France
Name	Pistolet
Namesake	Pistol
Ordered	1901
Builder	Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Nantes
Laid down	September 1901
Launched	2 March 1904
Stricken	19 September 1919
Fate	Sold for scrap, 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

In 1911, Pistolet 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.[1]

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.