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French destroyer Téméraire
Temeraire7 Marius Bar
Temeraire at anchor
Career (France) Civil and Naval Ensign of France
Name: Témémaire
Builder: Ateliers et Chantiers de Bretagne, Nantes
Launched: 8 December 1911
Completed: 2 November 1914
Struck: 1936
Fate: Scrapped after 1936
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 Téméraire 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.

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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. 

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