Chasseur-class destroyer

The Chasseur class consisted of four destroyers built for the French Navy during the first decade of the twentieth century. They saw service during the First World War. One ship was sunk during the war and the survivors were scrapped afterwards. A fifth ship was sold to Peru.

Design and description
The Chasseur class was based on the earlier Spahi-class destroyer, albeit with oil-fired boilers. They had a length between perpendiculars of 64.2 - 65.4 m, a beam of 6.5 - 6.7 m, and a draft of 3.1 m. Designed to displaced 450 t, the ships displaced 520 t at deep load. Their crews numbered 77–179 men.

The destroyers were powered by three Parsons direct-drive steam turbines, each driving one propeller shafts using steam provided by four water-tube boilers of two different types. The engines were designed to produce 7200 shp which was intended to give the ships a speed of 28 kn; during their sea trials, the destroyers demonstrated speeds of 28.6 - 31 kn. The ships carried 135 t of fuel oil (FRENCH DESTROYER Cavalier still used coal) which gave them a range of 1520 nmi at a cruising speed of 10 kn.

The primary armament of the Chasseur-class ships consisted of six 65 mm 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 450 mm torpedo tubes. One of these was in a fixed mount in the bow and the other two were on single rotating mounts amidships.