Voltigeur-class destroyer

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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.

Ships

Voltigeur - built by A. Ch. de la Bretagne, Nantes, launched 23 March 1909, decommissioned May 1920.
Tirailleur - built by Ch. de la Gironde, Bordeaux, launched 27 November 1908, decommissioned July 1921.

References

French Navy in World War I (English)
Robert Gardiner, Randal Gray, Przemysław Budzbon, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906-1921

v t e French naval ship classes of World War I

Dreadnought battleships	Courbet Bretagne Normandie^X Lyon^X

Pre-dreadnought battleships	Brennus^S Charles Martel^S Carnot^S Jauréguiberry^S Masséna^S Bouvet^S Charlemagne Henri IV^S Iéna^S Suffren^S République Liberté Danton

Armoured cruisers	Dupuy de Lôme^S Amiral Charner Pothuau^S Jeanne d'Arc^S Gueydon Dupleix Gloire Léon Gambetta Jules Michelet^S Ernest Renan^S Edgar Quinet

Protected cruisers	Amiral Cécille^S Forbin Troude Linois Friant Descartes D'Assas D'Entrecasteaux^S Guichen^S Châteaurenault^S Destrées Jurien de la Gravière^S

Destroyers	Durandal Framée Rochefortais Arquebuse Claymore Branlebas Spahi Voltigeur Chasseur Bouclier Bisson Enseigne Roux Enseigne Gabolde^S Aventurier Arabe

Submarines	Sirène Aigrette Oméga Émeraude Circé Pluviôse Brumaire

Seaplane carriers	Foudre^S

S Single ship of class C Completed after the war X Cancelled

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