Rochefortais-class destroyer

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Class overview
Name: Rochefortais or Pertuisane class
Operators:  French Navy
Completed: 4
Retired: 4
General characteristics
Tonnage: 305 tonnes (300 long tons)
Length: 57.6 m (189 ft 0 in)[1]
Beam: 6.3 m (20 ft 8 in)[1]
Height: 3.2 m (10 ft 6 in)[1]
Installed power: 5,000 shp (3,728 kW)[1]
Speed: 26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph)[1]
Complement: 52
Armament: • 1 × 65 mm (2.6 in) guns
• 6 × 47 mm (2 in) guns
• 2 × 380 mm (15 in) torpedo tubes

The Rochefortais class or Pertuisane class was a class of four destroyers of the French Navy built between 1902-03, used during the First World War.

Ships

  • Pertusiane
  • Escopette - sent by the French government on July 25, 1909 as seaborne escort for Louis Blériot's Channel-crossing flight
  • Flamberge
  • Rapière

See also

Media related to Pertuisane class destroyers at Wikimedia Commons

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). "PERTUSIANE - Contre-torpilleur de 300t type Pertusiane (1902 - 1923)". Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 2, 1870 - 2006. Toulon: Roche. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922. 
  • naval-history.net (English)
  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). "Classement par types". Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 2, 1870 - 2006. Toulon: Roche. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922. 


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