French destroyer Framée

	Sister ship Pique
History
France
Name	Framée
Namesake	Spear
Ordered	27 October 1897
Builder	Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire
Laid down	1897
Launched	29 June 1899
Completed	June 1900
Stricken	26 October 1900
Fate	Sunk in collision, 11 August 1900
General characteristics
Class and type	Framée-class destroyer
Displacement	319 t (314 long tons)
Length	58.2 m (190 ft 11 in) o/a
Beam	6.31 m (20 ft 8 in)
Draft	3.02 m (9 ft 11 in)
Installed power	4 Normand boilers; 5,200 ihp (3,878 kW);
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph)
Range	1,541 nmi (2,854 km; 1,773 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement	4 officers, 57 enlisted men
Armament	1 × single 65 mm (2.6 in) gun; 6 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) guns; 2 × single 381 mm (15 in) torpedo tubes;

Framée was the name ship of her class of four destroyers built for the French Navy around the beginning of the 20th century. Completed in mid-1900, she was sunk in a collision with the predreadnought battleship Brennus two months later with the loss of 47 men.

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