Chasseur-class destroyer

Chasseur, lead ship of the class
Class overview
Name: Chasseur class
Operators:  French Navy
 Peruvian Navy
Built: 1909–1910
In commission: 1909–1927
Completed: 4
Lost: 1
Retired: 3
General characteristics [1]
Type:Destroyer
Displacement:450 long tons (457 t) designed
520 long tons (528 t) full load
Length:64.2 m (210 ft 8 in)
Beam:6.4 m (21 ft 0 in)
Draught:3.1 m (10 ft 2 in)
Propulsion:3 shaft Parsons turbines
4 boilers
7,200 shp (5,369 kW)
Speed:28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Complement:78
Armament:6 × 65 mm (2.6 in) guns
3 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes

The Chasseur class was a class of four destroyers of the French Navy built between 1909–1910, used during the First World War. A fifth ship was sold to Peru.[2]

Apart from Chasseur, which still used coal, they were the first French Navy ships to be fitted with oil-fired boilers. In trials they exceeded their designed power by a wide margin, achieving speeds of up to 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph).[1]

Ships

Name Builder Launched Fate
Chasseur Normand, Le Havre 20 February 1909 Struck, October 1919.
Actée Schneider, Chalon-sur-Saône 1909 Sold incomplete to Peru as BAP Teniente Rodríguez in 1911; hulked in 1939[2]
Cavalier Normand, Le Havre 9 May 1910 Training ship from 1914. Struck, December 1927.
Fantassin F. et Ch. de la Méditerranée, La Seyne 17 June 1909 Sunk after collision with Mameluck, 5 June 1916.
Janissaire Penhoët, St. Nazaire 12 April 1910 Struck, October 1920.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships, 1906-1921". books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2010.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Teniente Rodríguez destroyer (1909/1914) - Peruvian Navy (Peru)". navypedia.org.