Aventurier-class destroyer

Téméraire at anchor
Class overview
NameAventurier class
Operators French Navy
Preceded byEnseigne Roux class
Succeeded byArabe class
Built1911–1914
In service1914–1938
In commission1914–1938
Completed4
Scrapped4
General characteristics
TypeDestroyer
Displacement
Length88.5 m (290 ft 4 in) (o/a)
Beam8.6 m (28 ft 3 in)
Draft3.1 m (10 ft 2 in)
Installed power
Propulsion2 shafts; 2 steam turbines
Speed32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range1,850 nmi (3,430 km; 2,130 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement140
Armament
  • 4 × single 100 mm (3.9 in) guns
  • 1 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) AA gun
  • 4 × single 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes

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.