Enseigne Roux-class destroyer
 Enseigne Roux at anchor |
| Class overview |
| Name: |
Enseigne Roux class |
| Builders: |
Arsenal de Rochefort |
| Operators: |
 French Navy |
| Preceded by: |
Bisson class |
| Succeeded by: |
Aventurier class |
| Built: |
1913–15 |
|
In commission: |
1915–36 |
| Planned: |
3 |
| Completed: |
2 |
| Scrapped: |
2 |
| General characteristics (as built) |
| Type: |
Destroyer |
| Displacement: |
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| Length: |
82.6 m (271 ft 0 in) (o/a) |
| Beam: |
8.6 m (28 ft 3 in) |
| Draft: |
3 m (9 ft 10 in) |
| Installed power: |
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| Propulsion: |
2 shafts; 2 Steam turbines |
| Speed: |
30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
| Range: |
1,400 nmi (2,600 km; 1,600 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Complement: |
81 |
| Armament: |
- 2 × single 100 mm (3.9 in) Mle 1893 guns
- 4 × single 65 mm (2.6 in) Mle 1902 guns
- 2 × twin 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes
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The Enseigne Roux class was a pair of destroyers built for the French Navy during World War I. The construction of a third ship of the class — Enseigne Gabolde — was suspended in 1914, and she was not completed until 1923 to a modified design.[1]
Ships
Citations
References
- Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
- Friedman, Norman (2011). Naval Weapons of World War One. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-100-7.
- 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.
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