French destroyer Mécanicien Principal Lestin

Sister ship Enseigne Roux at anchor
History
France
Name:	Mécanicien Principal Lestin
Builder:	Arsenal de Rochefort
Laid down:	12 November 1913
Launched:	15 May 1915
Completed:	1916
Struck:	1935
Fate:	Scrapped after 1935
General characteristics (as built)
Class & type:	Enseigne Roux-class destroyer
Displacement:	850 t (837 long tons) (normal) 1,075 t (1,058 long tons) (deep load)
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:	17,000 PS (13,000 kW; 17,000 shp) 4 water-tube boilers
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

The French destroyer Mécanicien Principal Lestin was the second of two Enseigne Roux-class destroyers built for the French Navy during the First World War.

Citations

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.

External links

• Enseigne Roux class on navypedia.org