French destroyer Catapulte
Catapulte at anchor
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| Name: | Catapulte |
| Namesake: | Catapult |
| Ordered: | 1901 |
| Builder: | Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne-sur-Mer |
| Laid down: | 1901 |
| Launched: | 1 April 1903 |
| Fate: | Sunk in collision 18 May 1918 |
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| Class and type: | Arquebuse-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 323 t (318 long tons) |
| Length: | 58.26 m (191 ft 2 in) (o/a) |
| Beam: | 6.38 m (20 ft 11 in) |
| Draft: | 3.2 m (10 ft 6 in) |
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| 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: | 60 |
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Catapulte was one of 20 Arquebuse-class destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She saw service during World War I.
On 11 May 1918, Caiatpulte assisted several other ships in rescuing the survivors of the French troopship Sant Anna, which was carrying 2,025 troops when she was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of 605 lives by the Imperial German Navy submarine SM UC-54 26 nautical miles east of Cape Bon, French Tunisia.
On 18 May 1918, Catapulte collided with the British steamer Warrimoo and sank in the Mediterranean Sea off Bône, French Algeria.
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