French destroyer Téméraire

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Temeraire.

Temeraire at anchor
History
France
Name	Téméraire
Builder	Ateliers et Chantiers de Bretagne, Nantes
Launched	8 December 1911
Completed	2 November 1914
Stricken	1936
Fate	Scrapped after 1936
General characteristics
Class and type	Template:Sclass-
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 1 × 47 mm (1.9 in) gun 4 × single 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

The French destroyer Téméraire was one of four Template:Sclass-s that was built for the Argentine Navy in the early 1910s. All four ships were taken over by the French Navy after the start of the First World War in August 1914.

References

• Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
• 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. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |lastauthoramp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)

External links

• Aventurier class on navypedia.org