French destroyer Opiniâtre

History
Sister ship Temeraire at anchor
France
Name:	Opiniâtre
Builder:	Dyle et Bacalan, Bordeaux
Launched:	1911
In service:	16 September 1914
Struck:	1933
Fate:	Scrapped, 1935
General characteristics
Class & type:	Aventurier-class destroyer
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 Opiniâtre was one of four Aventurier-class destroyers 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.

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

Aventurier class on navypedia.org

Aventurier-class destroyers

Argentine Navy Mendoza class	Mendoza La Rioja San Juan Salta

French Navy	Aventurier (ex-Mendoza) Opiniâtre (ex-La Rioja) Téméraire (ex-San Juan) Intrépide (ex-Salta)

Preceded by: Enseigne Roux class Followed by: Arabe class

List of destroyers of the Argentine Navy List of destroyers of the French Navy

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