 Renaudin at anchor
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| History | |
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 France | |
| Name | Renaudin |
| Ordered | 23 November 1910 |
| Builder | Arsenal de Toulon |
| Laid down | 1 February 1911 |
| Launched | 20 March 1913 |
| Commissioned | 1 January 1914 |
| Fate | Sunk by U-6, 18 March 1916 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Bisson-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 800 t (787 long tons) (normal) |
| Length | 78.1 m (256 ft 3 in) |
| Beam | 7.96 m (26 ft 1 in) |
| Draft | 2.94 m (9 ft 8 in) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 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 | 4 officers, 77–84 crewmen |
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Renaudin was one of six Bisson-class destroyers built for the French Navy during the early 1910s. Completed in 1913, the ship was assigned to the 1st Naval Army (1ère Armée Navale) in the Mediterranean Sea. During the First World War, she escorted the battle fleet during the Battle of Antivari in August 1914 and escorted multiple convoys to Montenegro for the rest of the year. Renaudin helped to sink a crippled Austro-Hungarian destroyer during the 1st Battle of Durazzo in late 1915 and protected the evacuation of the Royal Serbian Army from Durazzo, Albania, in February 1916. The ship was sunk by an Austro-Hungarian submarine the following month with the loss of 50 crewmen.