French destroyer Bison (1928)
Bison in the early 1930s | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| France | |
| Name | Bison |
| Namesake | Bison |
| Builder | Arsenal de Lorient |
| Launched | 29 October 1928 |
| Fate | Sunk, 3 May 1940 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class & type | Guépard-class destroyer |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 130.2 m (427 ft 2 in) |
| Beam | 11.5 m (37 ft 9 in) |
| Draft | 4.3 m (14 ft 1 in) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines |
| Speed | 35.5 knots (65.7 km/h; 40.9 mph) |
| Range | 3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph) |
| Crew | 12 officers, 224 crewmen (wartime) |
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The French destroyer Bison was a Guépard-class destroyer (contre-torpilleur) built for the French Navy during the 1920s. Completed in 1930, the ship participated in the Second World War and was sunk during the Norwegian campaign of 1940 by German dive bombers.