Aventurier-class destroyer

Téméraire at anchor
Class overview
Name: Aventurier class
Operators:  French Navy
Preceded by: Enseigne Roux class
Succeeded by: Arabe class
Built: 1911–14
In service: 1914–38
In commission: 1914–38
Completed: 4
Scrapped: 4
General characteristics
Type: Destroyer
Displacement: 930 t (915 long tons)
Length:
  • 88.53 m (290 ft 5 in) (o/a)
  • 86.28 m (283 ft 1 in) (waterline)
Beam: 8.6 m (28 ft 3 in)
Draft: 3.1 m (10 ft 2 in)
Installed power:
Propulsion: 2 shafts; 2 Steam turbines
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range: 1,850 nmi (3,430 km; 2,130 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 140
Armament:

The Aventurier-class destroyers were a group of four destroyers of the French Navy built during the early 1910s. They were built by the Ateliers et Chantiers de Bretagne in Nantes and the Dyle & Bacalan Shipyard in Bordeaux. Originally ordered by Argentina, they were taken over by the French on the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, completed with French armament and renamed.

Design

The Aventurier-class ships were significantly larger and more heavily armed than other French destroyers of the period. Each ship carried four 100 mm (3.9 in) guns, one on the forecastle, one between the funnels, and two on the quarterdeck, in front and behind the searchlight platform. Four 457-millimetre (18 in) torpedo tubes completed the initial armament. In December 1914 a 47-millimetre (1.9 in) gun was added for anti-aircraft defence.

In 1926, the ships were refitted to act as minesweepers.

Ships

NameFormerlyBuilt InLaunchedFate
OpiniâtreLa RiojaNantesJanuary 1911Broken up, 1935
AventurierMendozaNantes18 February 1911Broken up, 1940
TéméraireSan JuanBordeaux8 December 1911Struck, 1936
IntrépideSaltaBordeaux25 September 1911Broken up, 1938

Citations

    References

    • Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
    • Friedman, Norman (2011). Naval Weapons of World War One. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-100-7.
    • Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal, eds. (1984). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1922. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-907-3.


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