French destroyer Mameluck (1909)
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Service history

Tasked with escort duties in the Mediterranean Mameluck assigned to the 1st Squadron in June 1911, and a year later she was assigned to the 2nd Destroyer Squadron, of the 1st Fleet. In March 1913 she was assigned to torpedo squadron patrols and to support submarines in the Adriatic. In 1916 she escorted the submarines Faraday and Le Verrier to Milo
Milo, Italy
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On 14 December 1917, along with Lansquenet, she sank the German U-boat
U-boat
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  off Cape Ducato in the Ionian Sea
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after the submarine had torpedoed and sunk the light cruiser .

Mameluck was sold for scrap in 1928.
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