The Bisson class consisted of six destroyers built for the French Navy during the 1910s. One ship was lost during the First World War, but the others survived to be scrapped afterwards.
The Bisson class were enlarged versions of the preceding built to a more standardized design. The ships had a length between perpendiculars of , a beam of , and a draft of . Designed to displace , they displaced at normal load. Their crew numbered 80âÂÂ83 men.
The ships were powered by a pair of steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by four Indret water-tube boilers. The engines were designed to produce which was intended to give the ships a speed of . The ships carried of fuel oil which gave them a range of at cruising speeds of .
The primary armament of the Bisson-class ships consisted of two Modèle 1893 guns in single mounts, one each fore and aft of the superstructure, and four Modèle 1902 guns distributed amidships. They were also fitted with two twin mounts for torpedo tubes amidships.
The class is named in tribute to the French Admiral who sacrificed himself aboard the ship Panayoti in 1827 during the Greek War of Independence.
The class served primarily in the Mediterranean Sea during the First World War, with Bisson sinking the Austrian submarine on 13 August 1915 and Renaudin being sunk by in return.