French destroyer Fronde

	Fronde underway in harbor
History
France
Name	Fronde
Namesake	Sling
Ordered	14 November 1900
Builder	Chantiers et Ateliers de la Gironde, Bordeaux-Lormont
Laid down	January 1901
Launched	17 December 1902
Commissioned	April 1903
Stricken	30 October 1919
Fate	Sold for scrap, 6 May 1920
General characteristics
Class and type	Arquebuse-class destroyer
Displacement	357 t (351 long tons) (deep load)
Length	56.58 m (185 ft 8 in) (o/a)
Beam	6.38 m (20 ft 11 in)
Draft	3.2 m (10 ft 6 in) (deep load)
Installed power	2 water-tube boilers; 6,300 ihp (4,698 kW);
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	4 officers and 58 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;

Fronde was a Arquebuse-class destroyer contre-torpilleur d'escadre built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. Completed in 1903, the ship was initially assigned to the Mediterranean Squadron (Escadre de la Méditerranée), but was transferred to the Far East the following year. The ship was wrecked during a typhoon in 1906, but was salvaged and returned to service. She participated in the Battle of Penang in 1914, a few months after the beginning of the World War I. Fronde was transferred to the Mediterranean in 1915 and remained there for the war. The ship was sold for scrap in 1920.

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