Chasseur-class destroyer

Class overview
A postcard of Chasseur at anchor
Name:	Chasseur class
Operators:	French Navy Peruvian Navy
Preceded by:	Voltigeur class
Succeeded by:	Bouclier class
Built:	1909–1910
In commission:	1909–1927
Completed:	4
Lost:	1
Scrapped:	3
General characteristics
Type:	Destroyer
Displacement:	457 t (450 long tons) (designed) 528 t (520 long tons) (deep load)
Length:	64.2–65.4 m (210 ft 8 in–214 ft 7 in) (p/p)
Beam:	6.5–6.7 m (21 ft 4 in–22 ft 0 in)
Draft:	3.1 m (10 ft 2 in)
Installed power:	7,200 shp (5,369 kW) 3–4 Normand or Foster-Wheeler boilers
Propulsion:	3 shafts; 3 Steam turbines
Speed:	28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range:	1,400–1,500 nmi (2,600–2,800 km; 1,600–1,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	77–79
Armament:	6 × 65 mm (2.6 in) guns 3 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

The Chasseur class was a group of four destroyers of the French Navy built between 1909–1910, used during the First World War. A fifth ship was sold to Peru.^[1]

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).^[2]

Ships

Name	Builder	Launched	Fate
Chasseur	Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, Le Havre	20 February 1909	Struck, October 1919.
Actée	Schneider et Cie, Chalon-sur-Saône	1909	Sold incomplete to Peru as BAP Teniente Rodríguez in 1911; hulked in 1939^[1]
Cavalier	Normand, Le Havre	9 May 1910	Training ship from 1914. Struck, December 1927.
Fantassin	Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne-sur-Mer	17 June 1909	Sunk after collision with Mameluck, 5 June 1916.
Janissaire	Ateliers et Chantier de Saint-Nazaire Penhoët, Saint-Nazaire	12 April 1910	Struck, October 1920.

References

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

Bibliography

Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
Osborne, Eric W. (2005). Destroyers - An Illustrated History of Their Impact. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio. ISBN 1-85109-479-2.
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.

External links

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Chasseur-class destroyers

French Navy	Chasseur Janissaire Fantassin Cavalier Actée

Peruvian Navy	Teniente Rodríguez (ex-Actée)

Preceded by: Voltigeur class Followed by: Bouclier class

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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