Espingole was a Durandal-class destroyer built for the French Navy in the late 1890s. The ship displaced and was armed with one gun, six guns, and two torpedo tubes. Commissioned in 1900, she only saw a few years of service before running aground and sinking in 1903 off the Côte d'Azur. Her captain was acquitted at his court-martial seven years later. Multiple salvage attempts failed and a legal dispute arising from the last attempt was not settled until 1926.