The French destroyer Bison was a () 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.
The Guépard-class ships were improved versions of the preceding . They had an overall length of , a beam of , and a draft of . The ships displaced at standard load and at deep load. Their crew consisted of 10 officers and 200 crewmen in peacetime and 102 officers and 224 enlisted men in wartime.
The ships were powered by two geared steam turbines, each driving a propeller shaft using steam provided by four du Temple boilers. The turbines were designed to produce which was intended give the ships a speed of . During her sea trials on 20 December 1929, Bison sustained a speed of from . The ships carried enough fuel oil to give them a range of at .
The main battery of the Guépard class consisted of five Modèle 1923 guns in single shielded mounts, one superfiring pair fore and aft of the superstructure and the fifth gun abaft the rear funnel. Their anti-aircraft armament consisted of four semi-automatic Modèle 1927 guns in single mounts positioned amidships. They were equipped with two rotating triple mounts for torpedo tubes, one mount between the two pairs of funnels as well as another aft of the rear funnel. A pair of depth charge chutes were built into their stern; these housed a total of sixteen depth charges, with eight more in reserve. They were also fitted with four depth-charge throwers, two on each side abreast the forward pair of funnels, for which the ships carried a dozen depth charges.
Bison served during the Norwegian Campaign in World War II. While evacuating Allied troops at Namsos, the ship came under German air attack and exploded after being struck in the forward magazine by a bomb, dropped by a Ju 87 from I./StG 1, killing 136 members of her crew and causing the ship to sink by the bow. The British destroyer came to the aid of the surviving crew, rescuing sixty-nine of the French sailors in the water and sinking the hull of the ship. However, Afridi soon came under air attack and sank as well, and among the dead were thirty-five of the surviving crew of Bison. The surviving crews from Bison, Afridi, and the troops they had evacuated were rescued by the destroyers , and .