Aventurier-class destroyer


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

Design and description

The Aventurier-class ships were significantly larger and more heavily armed than other French destroyers of the period. The ships had an overall length of, a beam of, and a draft of. They displaced at normal load and at deep load. Their crew numbered 140 men.
The ships were powered by a pair of Rateau steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by five mixed-firing Foster-Wheeler boilers. The engines were designed to produce which was intended to give the ships a speed of. The ships carried of coal and of fuel oil that gave them a range of at a cruising speed of.
The primary armament of the Aventurier-class ships consisted of four guns in single mounts, one on the forecastle, one between the funnels, and two on the quarterdeck, in front and behind the searchlight platform. They were fitted with a AA gun for anti-aircraft defence. The ships were also equipped with four single mounts for torpedo tubes amidships.

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