Yatagan was one of four Framée-class destroyers built for the French Navy around the beginning of the 20th century.

During the First World War, she was sunk after a collision with a British cargo ship in 1916.

The ships carried enough coal to give them a range of 2,055 nautical miles (3,806 km; 2,365 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph).

[3] Yatagan was ordered from Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire and the ship was laid down in 1897 at its shipyard in Nantes.

While thus engaged, she collided with the British steamer Teviot and sank in the English Channel off Dieppe, France, on 3 November 1916.