| Chasseur-class destroyer | |
|---|---|
 Chasseur, lead ship of the class | |
| Class overview | |
| Name: | Chasseur class |
| Operators: |
 French Navy Peruvian Navy |
| Built: | 1909–1910 |
| In commission: | 1909–1927 |
| Completed: | 4 |
| Lost: | 1 |
| Retired: | 3 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Displacement: |
450 long tons (457 t) designed 520 long tons (528 t) full load |
| Length: | 64.2 m (210 ft 8 in) |
| Beam: | 6.4 m (21 ft 0 in) |
| Draught: | 3.1 m (10 ft 2 in) |
| Propulsion: |
3 shaft Parsons turbines 4 boilers 7,200 shp (5,369 kW) |
| Speed: | 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
| Complement: | 78 |
| Armament: |
• 6 × 65 mm (2.6 in) guns • 3 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes |
The Chasseur class was a class of four destroyers of the French Navy built between 1909–1910, used during the First World War. A fifth ship was sold to Peru.[2]
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).[1]
Ships[]
| Name | Builder | Launched | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chasseur | Normand, Le Havre | 20 February 1909 | Struck, October 1919. |
| Actée | Schneider, Chalon-sur-Saône | 1909 | Sold incomplete to Peru as BAP Teniente Rodríguez in 1911; hulked in 1939[2] |
| Cavalier | Normand, Le Havre | 9 May 1910 | Training ship from 1914. Struck, December 1927. |
| Fantassin | F. et Ch. de la Méditerranée, La Seyne | 17 June 1909 | Sunk after collision with Mameluck, 5 June 1916. |
| Janissaire | Penhoët, St. Nazaire | 12 April 1910 | Struck, October 1920. |
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships, 1906-1921". books.google.co.uk. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=j29zoWpozl8C&pg=PA202&lpg=PA202. Retrieved 1 July 2010.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Teniente Rodríguez destroyer (1909/1914) - Peruvian Navy (Peru)". navypedia.org. http://www.navypedia.org/ships/peru/per_dd_teniente_rodriguez.htm.
- naval-history.net (English)
- 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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