French destroyer Aventurier

Sister ship Temeraire at anchor
History
France
Name: Aventurier
Builder: Dyle et Bacalan, Bordeaux
Launched: 18 February 1911
Completed: 29 September 1914
Struck: 1938
Fate: Scrapped, 1940
General characteristics
Class and type: Aventurier-class 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 French destroyer Aventurier was the name ship of her class of destroyers that was built for the Argentine Navy in the early 1910s. All four ships were taken over by the French Navy after the start of the First World War in August 1914.

Citations

    References

    • Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
    • 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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