French destroyer Tirailleur

History
France
Name: Tirailleur
Namesake: Tirailleur
Builder: Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde, Bordeaux
Launched: 27 November 1908
Completed: July 1910
Struck: July 1921
General characteristics
Class and type: Voltigeur-class destroyer
Displacement:
Length: 63 m (206 ft 8 in) (p/p)
Beam: 6.4 m (21 ft 0 in)
Draft: 2.9 m (9 ft 6 in)
Installed power:
Propulsion: 3 shafts; 2 Triple-expansion steam engines and 1 steam turbine
Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range: 1,520 nmi (2,820 km; 1,750 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 76–77
Armament:
  • 6 × single 65 mm (2.6 in) guns
  • 3 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

Tirailleur was one of two Voltigeur-class destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

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