Aventurier class destroyer
|
| Class overview |
| Name: |
Aventurier class |
| Operators: |
French Navy |
| Completed: |
4 |
| Retired: |
4 |
| General characteristics |
| Type: |
Destroyer |
| Displacement: |
930 tonnes (915 long tons) |
| Speed: |
32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) |
| Complement: |
140 |
| Armament: |
• 4 × 100 mm (4 in) guns
• 4 × 457 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes |
The Aventurier class was a class of four destroyers of the French Navy launched in 1911, and used during the First World War. Originally ordered by Argentina, they were taken over by the French on the outbreak of war in August 1914, completed with French armament and renamed.[1]
Ships
| Name |
Formerly |
Launched |
Fate |
| Opiniatre[2] |
Rioja |
1911 |
Broken up, 1935 |
| Aventurier |
Mendoza |
18 February 1911 |
Broken up, 1940 |
| Temeraire |
San Juan |
8 December 1911 |
Struck, 1936 |
| Intrepide |
Salta |
25 September 1911 |
Broken up, 1938 |
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