Aventurier-class destroyer

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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:	18,000 PS (13,000 kW; 18,000 shp) 5 White Foster-Wheeler water-tube boilers
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:	4 × single 100 mm (3.9 in) guns 4 × single 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

The Aventurier-class destroyers were a group of four destroyers of the French Navy built during the early 1910s. during. 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.

The class was significantly larger and more heavily armed than other French destroyers of the period. The ships carried four 100-millimetre (4 in) guns, one on the forecastle, one between the funnels, and two on the quarterdeck, in front and behind the searchlight platform. Two pairs of 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.

Ships

Name	Formerly	Launched	Fate
Opiniâtre	La Rioja	1911	Broken up, 1935
Aventurier	Mendoza	18 February 1911	Broken up, 1940
Téméraire	San Juan	8 December 1911	Struck, 1936
Intrépide	Salta	25 September 1911	Broken up, 1938

External links

• French Navy on naval-history.net
• French Destroyers at battleships-cruisers.co.uk