Aventurier-class destroyer

Class overview
Téméraire at anchor
Name:	Aventurier class
Operators:	French Navy
Preceded by:	Enseigne Roux class
Succeeded by:	Arabe class
Built:	1911–14
In service:	1914–38
In commission:	1914–38
Completed:	4
Scrapped:	4
General characteristics
Type:	Destroyer
Displacement:	930 t (915 long tons)
Length:	88.53 m (290 ft 5 in) (o/a) 86.28 m (283 ft 1 in) (waterline)
Beam:	8.6 m (28 ft 3 in)
Draft:	3.1 m (10 ft 2 in)
Installed power:	18,000 PS (13,000 kW; 18,000 shp) 5 White Foster-Wheeler water-tube boilers
Propulsion:	2 shafts; 2 Steam turbines
Speed:	32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range:	1,850 nmi (3,430 km; 2,130 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	140
Armament:	4 × single 100 mm (3.9 in) guns 4 × single 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

The Aventurier-class destroyers were a group of four destroyers of the French Navy built during the early 1910s. Originally ordered by Argentina, they were taken over by the French on the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, completed with French armament and renamed.

The Aventurier-class ships were significantly larger and more heavily armed than other French destroyers of the period. Each ship carried four 100-millimetre (4 in) guns, one on the forecastle, one between the funnels, and two on the quarterdeck, in front and behind the searchlight platform. Four 457-millimetre (18 in) torpedo tubes completed the initial armament. In December 1914 a 47-millimetre (1.9 in) gun was added for anti-aircraft defence.

Ships

Name	Formerly	Launched	Fate
Opiniâtre	La Rioja	1911	Broken up, 1935
Aventurier	Mendoza	18 February 1911	Broken up, 1940
Téméraire	San Juan	8 December 1911	Struck, 1936
Intrépide	Salta	25 September 1911	Broken up, 1938

Citations

References

Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
Friedman, Norman (2011). Naval Weapons of World War One. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-100-7.
Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal, eds. (1984). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1922. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-907-3.

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Aventurier-class destroyers

Argentine Navy Mendoza class	Mendoza La Rioja San Juan Salta

French Navy	Aventurier (ex-Mendoza) Opiniâtre (ex-La Rioja) Téméraire (ex-San Juan) Intrépide (ex-Salta)

Preceded by: Enseigne Roux class Followed by: Arabe class

List of destroyers of the Argentine Navy List of destroyers of the French Navy

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 Pertuisane Arquebuse Claymore Branlebas Spahi Voltigeur Chasseur Bouclier Bisson Enseigne Roux Aventurier Arabe

Submarines	Sirène Aigrette Oméga Émeraude Circé Pluviôse Brumaire Archimède^S Mariotte^S Amiral Bourgois^S Charles Brun^S Clorinde Gustave Zédé Amphitrite Bellone Dupuy de Lôme Diane Fulton Lagrange Armide O'Byrne

Seaplane carriers	Foudre^S

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

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