French destroyer Espingole

Espingole moving at slow speed in harbor
History
France
Name	Espingole
Namesake	French type of blunderbuss
Ordered	1896
Builder	Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, Le Havre
Cost	₣1,690,994
Laid down	1896 or 1897
Launched	28 June 1900
Completed	24 September 1900
Stricken	16 September 1903
Fate	Sank after striking a rock, 4 February 1903
General characteristics
Class and type	Durandal-class destroyer
Displacement	311 t (306 long tons)
Length	57.64 m (189 ft 1 in)
Beam	6.3 m (20 ft 8 in)
Draft	3.2 m (10 ft 6 in)
Depth	4.1 m (13 ft 5 in)
Installed power	2 × Normand boilers 5,200 PS (3,800 kW)
Propulsion	2 × Shafts 2 × Triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph)
Range	2,300 nmi (4,300 km; 2,600 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	64 officers and enlisted men
Armament	1 × 65 mm (2.6 in) gun 6 × 47 mm (1.9 in) guns 2 × 381 mm (15 in) torpedo tubes

Espingole was a Durandal-class destroyer built for the French Navy in the late 1890s. Commissioned in 1900, she saw only a few years of service before running aground and sinking in 1903 off the Côte d'Azur. Her captain was acquitted at his court-martial seven years later. Multiple salvage attempts failed and a legal dispute arising from the last attempt was not settled until 1926.