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Class overview | |
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Name | Aventurier class |
Operators | French Navy |
Preceded by | Enseigne Roux class |
Succeeded by | Arabe class |
Built | 1911–1914 |
In service | 1914–1938 |
In commission | 1914–1938 |
Completed | 4 |
Scrapped | 4 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 88.5 m (290 ft 4 in) (o/a) |
Beam | 8.6 m (28 ft 3 in) |
Draft | 3.1 m (10 ft 2 in) |
Installed power |
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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 |
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The Aventurier-class destroyers were a group of four destroyers built during the early 1910s. Originally ordered by Argentina, they were taken over by the French Navy when the First World War began in August 1914, completed with French armament and renamed.