Chasseur-class destroyer

A postcard of Chasseur at anchor
Class overview
Name: Chasseur class
Operators:
Preceded by: Voltigeur class
Succeeded by: Bouclier class
Built: 1909–1910
In commission: 1909–1927
Completed: 4
Lost: 1
Scrapped: 3
General characteristics
Type: Destroyer
Displacement:
Length: 64.2–65.4 m (210 ft 8 in–214 ft 7 in) (p/p)
Beam: 6.5–6.7 m (21 ft 4 in–22 ft 0 in)
Draft: 3.1 m (10 ft 2 in)
Installed power:
  • 7,200 shp (5,369 kW)
  • 3–4 Normand or Foster-Wheeler boilers
Propulsion: 3 shafts; 3 Steam turbines
Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range: 1,400–1,500 nmi (2,600–2,800 km; 1,600–1,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 77–79
Armament:

The Chasseur class was a group of four destroyers of the French Navy built between 1909–1910, used during the First World War. A fifth ship was sold to Peru.[1]

Apart from Chasseur, which still used coal, they were the first French Navy ships to be fitted with oil-fired boilers. In trials they exceeded their designed power by a wide margin, achieving speeds of up to 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph).[2]

Ships

NameBuilderLaunchedFate
ChasseurChantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, Le Havre20 February 1909Struck, October 1919.
ActéeSchneider et Cie, Chalon-sur-Saône1909Sold incomplete to Peru as BAP Teniente Rodríguez in 1911; hulked in 1939[1]
CavalierNormand, Le Havre9 May 1910Training ship from 1914. Struck, December 1927.
FantassinForges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne-sur-Mer17 June 1909Sunk after collision with Mameluck, 5 June 1916.
JanissaireAteliers et Chantiers de Penhoët, Saint-Nazaire12 April 1910Struck, October 1920.

References

  1. 1 2 "Teniente Rodríguez destroyer (1909/1914) - Peruvian Navy (Peru)". navypedia.org.
  2. ↑ "Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships, 1906-1921". books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2010.

Bibliography

  • Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
  • Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
  • Osborne, Eric W. (2005). Destroyers - An Illustrated History of Their Impact. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio. ISBN 1-85109-479-2.
  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). "Classement par types". Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 2, 1870 - 2006. Toulon: Roche. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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