Aventurier-class destroyer
Téméraire at anchor
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Aventurier class |
| Operators: |
 French Navy
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| 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: | |
| Beam: | 8.6 m (28 ft 3 in) |
| Draft: | 3.1 m (10 ft 2 in) |
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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 |
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The Aventurier-class destroyers were a group of four destroyers of the French Navy built during the early 1910s. 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 Aventurier-class ships were significantly larger and more heavily armed than other French destroyers of the period. Each ship carried four 100 mm (3.9 in) guns, one on the forecastle, one between the funnels, and two on the quarterdeck, in front and behind the searchlight platform. Four 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.
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