French destroyer Mameluck

Mameluck was a Spahi-class destroyer of the French Navy from 1909 to 1928.

History
France
Name: Mameluck
Namesake: Mameluke
Builder: Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Nantes
Launched: 10 March 1909
Completed: June 1911
Struck: February 1928
General characteristics
Class and type: Spahi-class destroyer
Displacement: 539 t (530 long tons)
Length: 65.8 m (215 ft 11 in) (p/p)
Beam: 6.6 m (21 ft 8 in)
Draft: 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in)
Installed power:
  • 7,500 ihp (5,593 kW)
  • 4 Normand boilers
Propulsion: 2 shafts; 2 Triple-expansion steam engines
Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range: 1,000–1,200 nmi (1,900–2,200 km; 1,200–1,400 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 77–79
Armament:

Service history

Tasked with escort duties in the Mediterranean Mameluck was assigned to the 1st Squadron in June 1911, and a year later she was assigned to the 2nd Destroyer Squadron, of the 1st Fleet. In March 1913 she was assigned to torpedo squadron patrols and to support submarines in the Adriatic.[1]

During World War I, Mameluck rammed the French destroyer Fantassin in the Ionian Sea on 5 June 1915, so badly damaging Fantassin that the French destroyer Fauconneau consequently scuttled her.[2]

In 1916, Mameluck escorted the submarines Faraday and Le Verrier to Milo.[1] On 14 December 1917, along with Lansquenet, she sank the Imperial German Navy U-boat UC-38 off Cape Ducato in the Ionian Sea after the submarine torpedoed and sunk the French protected cruiser Châteaurenault.[1]

Mameluck was sold for scrap in 1928.[1]

Citations
  1. "MAMELUCK - Contre-torpilleur - marine - Forum Pages d'Histoire: marine - FORUM pages 14-18". pages14-18.mesdiscussions.net. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
  2. "French Navy". Naval History. Retrieved 21 February 2013.

Bibliography
  • 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.
  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). "Classement par types". Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 2, 1870 - 2006. Toulon: Roche. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.


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