French destroyer Renaudin

Sister ship Bisson in harbor
History
France
Name:	Renaudin
Builder:	Arsenal de Toulon
Laid down:	February 1911
Launched:	20 March 1913
Completed:	1913
Fate:	Sunk by U-6, 18 March 1916
General characteristics
Class and type:	Bisson-class destroyer
Displacement:	768–804 t (756–791 long tons)
Length:	78.1 m (256 ft 3 in) (p/p)
Beam:	8.6 m (28 ft 3 in)
Draft:	3.1 m (10 ft 2 in)
Installed power:	15,000 shp (11,185 kW) 4 Indret water-tube boilers
Propulsion:	2 shafts; 2 Breguet 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:	80–83
Armament:	2 × 100 mm (3.9 in) Mle 1893 guns 4 × 65 mm (2.6 in) Mle 1902 guns 2 × twin 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

Renaudin was one of six Bisson-class destroyers built for the French Navy during the 1910s.

During World War I, Renaudin was torpedoed and sunk in the Adriatic Sea off Durrës, Albania (41°17′N 19°22′E / 41.283°N 19.367°E / 41.283; 19.367) by the Austro-Hungarian Navy submarine SM U-6 on 18 March 1916.^[1]

References

Bibliography

• Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5. 
• Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5. 

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in March 1916
Shipwrecks	5 Mar: Príncipe de Asturias 7 Mar: HMS E5, HMS Coquette 12 Mar: Seyyar 16 Mar: Tubantia, SM UC-12 18 Mar: Renaudin 22 Mar: SM U-68 26 Mar: Tabora 30 Mar: Portugal Unknown date: HMS E24
Other incidents	24 Mar: HMS Cleopatra; Sussex, HMS Undaunted 25 Mar: HMS Laverock
1915 1916 1917 February 1916 April 1916