| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Voltigeur class |
| Operators: | French Navy |
| Built: | 1908–1909 |
| In service: | 1909–1921 |
| Completed: | 2 |
| Retired: | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Displacement: | 450 long tons (457 t) standard 590 long tons (599 t) full load |
| Length: | Voltigeur : 65.5 m (214 ft 11 in) Tirailleur : 63 m (206 ft 8 in) |
| Beam: | Voltigeur : 6.8 m (22 ft 4 in) Tirailleur : 6.4 m (21 ft 0 in) |
| Draught: | Voltigeur : 3.1 m (10 ft 2 in) Tirailleur : 2.9 m (9 ft 6 in) |
| Installed power: | 7,500 hp (5,593 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 2 steam turbines and 1 triple expansion engine 4 coal fired boilers 3 shafts |
| Speed: | 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
| Complement: | 77 |
| Armament: | • 6 × 65 mm (2.6 in) guns • 3 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes |
The Voltigeur class was a class of two destroyers of the French Navy built between 1908/09, used during the First World War.
The ships were modelled on the preceding Spahi-class destroyer. The machinery consisted of three shafts: the central shaft had a triple expansion engine for economical cruising and the two outer shafts had Rateau (Voltigeur) or Breguet (Tirailleur) turbines for additional speed, all powered by four Normand (Voltigeur) or Du Temple (Tirailleur) boilers.
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