Voltigeur-class destroyer


The Voltigeur class was a pair of destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. Both ships survived the First World War and were scrapped afterwards.

Design and description

The Voltigeur class was based on the preceding, albeit with a different arrangement of propulsion machinery. They had an length between perpendiculars of, a beam of, and a draft of. Designed to displaced, the ships displaced at deep load.
The destroyers were powered by one triple-expansion steam engines andtwo direct-drive steam turbine. The steam engines drove the center propeller shaft while the turbine powered the two outer shafts, all using steam provided by four water-tube boilers of two different types. The engines were designed to produce which was intended to give the ships a speed of. The ships carried of coal which gave them a range of at a cruising speed of.
The primary armament of the Voltigeur-class ships consisted of six Modèle 1902 guns in single mounts, one each fore and aft of the superstructure and the others were distributed amidships. They were also fitted with three torpedo tubes. One of these was in a fixed mount in the bow and the other two were on single rotating mounts amidships.

Ships