FRENCH DESTROYER LOST.
MINED AND SUNKMOST OF THE CREW SAVED. (Received 11.30 a.m.) PARIS, May 20. The destroyer Boutefeu has been mined and sunk. A few of the crew were lost. (A. and N.Z. Cable.) The Boutefeu was a destroyer of the Bouchier class. She waa laid down in 1910, and completed in ID 12. Her tonnape was 703, and her speed was 31 knots. She carried two 4in guns, four 9-poundcrß, and four 18 in torpedo tubes.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 120, 21 May 1917, Page 6
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