Chasseur class destroyer

Chasseur, lead ship of the class
Class overview
Name:	Chasseur class
Operators:	French 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.

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.
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. ^ ^{a b} "Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships, 1906-1921". books.google.co.uk. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=j29zoWpozl8C&pg=PA202&lpg=PA202. Retrieved 1 July 2010. 

• naval-history.net (English)
• 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.