French destroyer Gabion
{{Short description|Destroyer of the French Navy}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Sape french destroyer.jpg |Ship caption=Sister ship {{ship|French destroyer|Sape | 2}} underway
}} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=France |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|France|naval}} |Ship name=Gabion |Ship namesake=Gabion |Ship original cost= |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=Ateliers et Chantiers de Penhoët, Rouen |Ship laid down=December 1905 |Ship launched=21 December 1907 |Ship completed= |Ship commissioned= |Ship struck=14 May 1921 |Ship fate= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class={{sclass|Branlebas|destroyer}} |Ship displacement={{convert|344|LT|t|0|disp=flip|abbr=on|lk=on}} |Ship length={{convert|58|m|ftin|abbr=on}} (p/p) |Ship beam={{convert|6.28|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |Ship draft={{convert|2.96|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |Ship power=*{{convert|6800|ihp|0|abbr=on|lk=in}}
|Ship propulsion=2 shafts; 2 Triple-expansion steam engines |Ship speed={{convert|27.5|kn|lk=in}} |Ship range={{convert|2100|nmi|lk=in|abbr=on}} at {{convert|10|kn}} |Ship complement=60 |Ship armament=*1 × Canon de 65 mm Modèle 1891 gun
|Ship armor=Waterline belt: {{convert|20|mm|in|abbr=on|1}} |Ship notes= }} |
Gabion was one of 10 {{sclass|Branlebas|destroyer}}s built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.
Construction and career
When the First World War began in August 1914, Gabion was assigned to the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla ({{lang|fr|2e escadrille de torpilleurs}}) of the 2nd Light Squadron ({{lang|fr|2e escadre légère}})Prévoteaux, Tome I, p. 34 based at Cherbourg.
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book |title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905 |editor1-last=Chesneau |editor1-first=Roger |editor2-last=Kolesnik |editor2-first=Eugene M. |publisher=Conway Maritime Press |location=Greenwich |year=1979 |isbn=0-8317-0302-4 |name-list-style=amp |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/conwaysallworlds0000unse_l2e2|chapter=France|author1-last=Campbell|author1-first=N. J. M.|pages=283–333}}
- {{cite book|last=Couhat|first=Jean Labayle|title=French Warships of World War I|year=1974|publisher=Ian Allan |location=London|isbn=0-7110-0445-5}}
- {{cite book |last1=Prévoteaux |first1=Gérard |title=La marine française dans la Grande guerre: les combattants oubliés: Tome I 1914–1915 |date=2017 |publisher=Éditions Lela presse |location=Le Vigen, France |isbn=978-2-37468-000-2|trans-title=The French Navy during the Great War: The Forgotten Combatants, Book I 1914–1915|series=Collection Navires & Histoire des Marines du Mond|volume=23}}
- {{cite book |last1=Prévoteaux |first1=Gérard |title=La marine française dans la Grande guerre: les combattants oubliés: Tome II 1916–1918 |date=2017 |publisher=Éditions Lela presse |location=Le Vigen, France |isbn=978-2-37468-001-9|trans-title=The French Navy during the Great War: The Forgotten Combatants, Book II 1916–1918|series=Collection Navires & Histoire des Marines du Mond|volume=27}}
- {{cite book|last=Roberts|first=Stephen S.|title=French Warships in the Age of Steam 1859–1914: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|year=2021|location=Barnsley, UK|publisher=Seaforth Publishing |isbn=978-1-5267-4533-0}}
{{Branlebas class destroyer}}
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Category:Branlebas-class destroyers