Chasseur-class destroyer

300px A postcard of Chasseur at anchor
Class overview
Name:	Chasseur class
Operators:	French Navy Peruvian Navy
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:	457 t (450 long tons) (designed) 528 t (520 long tons) (deep load)
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:	6 × 65 mm (2.6 in) guns 3 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

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.

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).

Ships

Name	Builder	Launched	Fate
Chasseur	Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, Le Havre	20 February 1909	Struck, October 1919.
Actée	Schneider et Cie, Chalon-sur-Saône	1909	Sold incomplete to Peru as BAP Teniente Rodríguez in 1911; hulked in 1939
Cavalier	Normand, Le Havre	9 May 1910	Training ship from 1914. Struck, December 1927.
Fantassin	Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne-sur-Mer	17 June 1909	Sunk after collision with Mameluck, 5 June 1916.
Janissaire	Ateliers et Chantier de Saint-Nazaire Penhoët, Saint-Nazaire	12 April 1910	Struck, October 1920.

External links

• The Chasseur class on navypedia.org