The ''Framée'' class consisted of four

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s built for the French Navy at the beginning of the 20th century. One ship was sunk in a collision shortly after completion, but the others served during the First World War. One ship was sunk in a collision with a British

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in 1916, but the others survived the war to be discarded in 1920–1921.

Design and description

The ''Framée''s had an overall length of , a

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of , and a maximum draft of . They displaced at deep load. The two triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller shaft, produced a total of , using steam provided by four water-tube boilers which exhausted through four funnels. The ships had a designed speed of , but they reached during their sea trials. The ships carried up to of coalCampbell, p. 326 to give them a range of at . Their complement consisted of four officers and forty-four enlisted men.Couhat, p. 83 The ''Framée''-class ships were armed with a single gun forward of the bridge and six

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s, three on each

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. They were fitted with two single torpedo tubes, one between the funnels and the other on the

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. Two reload torpedoes were also carried.Couhat, p. 81

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