French destroyer Bisson

	Bisson in harbor
History
France
Name	Bisson
Ordered	23 November 1910
Builder	Arsenal de Toulon
Laid down	1 January 1911
Launched	12 September 1912
Completed	1913
Commissioned	8 September 1913
Stricken	15 February 1933
General characteristics
Class and type	Bisson-class destroyer
Displacement	800 t (787 long tons) (normal)
Length	78.1 m (256 ft 3 in)
Beam	7.96 m (26 ft 1 in)
Draft	2.94 m (9 ft 8 in)
Installed power	4 Guyot-du Temple boilers; 15,000 shp (11,185 kW);
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 steam turbines
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range	1,950 nmi (3,610 km; 2,240 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement	4 officers, 77–84 crewmen
Armament	2 × single 100 mm (3.9 in) guns; 4 × single 65 mm (2.6 in) guns; 2 × twin 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes;

Bisson was the name ship of her class of destroyers built for the French Navy during the 1910s, entering service in 1913. She served in the Mediterranean Sea during the First World War, sinking the Austro-Hungarian submarine U-3 on 6 July 1915 and took part in the Battle of Durazzo in December 1915 and the Battle of the Strait of Otranto in May 1917. She was stricken in 1933 and scrapped in 1939.

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