Voltigeur-class destroyer

Class overview
Name:	Voltigeur class
Operators:	French Navy
Preceded by:	Spahi class
Succeeded by:	Chasseur class
Built:	1908–10
In service:	1910–21
Completed:	2
Scrapped:	2
General characteristics
Type:	Destroyer
Displacement:	457 t (450 long tons) (designed) 599 t (590 long tons) (deep load)
Length:	63–65.5 m (206 ft 8 in – 214 ft 11 in) (p/p)
Beam:	6.4–6.8 m (21 ft 0 in – 22 ft 4 in)
Draft:	2.9–3.1 m (9 ft 6 in – 10 ft 2 in)
Installed power:	7,500 shp (5,593 kW) 4 Normand or Du Temple boilers
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

The Voltigeur class was a pair of two destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. Both ships survived the First World War and were scrapped afterwards.

The ships were modelled on the preceding Spahi-class destroyer. The machinery consisted of three shafts: the central shaft had a triple expansion engine for economical cruising and the two outer shafts had Rateau (Voltigeur) or Breguet (Tirailleur) turbines for additional speed, all powered by four Normand (Voltigeur) or Du Temple (Tirailleur) boilers.

Ships

• Voltigeur - built by Ateliers et Chantiers de Bretagne, Nantes, launched 23 March 1909, decommissioned May 1920.
• Tirailleur - built by Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde, Bordeaux, launched 27 November 1908, decommissioned July 1921.