French destroyer Téméraire

Téméraire at anchor
History
France
NameTéméraire
BuilderAteliers et Chantiers de Bretagne, Nantes
Launched8 December 1911
Completed2 November 1914
Stricken1936
FateScrapped after 1936
General characteristics
Class & typeAventurier-class destroyer
Displacement
Length88.5 m (290 ft 4 in) (o/a)
Beam8.6 m (28 ft 3 in)
Draft3.1 m (10 ft 2 in)
Installed power
Propulsion2 shafts; 2 steam turbines
Speed32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range1,850 nmi (3,430 km; 2,130 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement140
Armament
  • 4 × single 100 mm (3.9 in) guns
  • 1 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) AA gun
  • 4 × single 450 mm (18 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. The ships were taken over by the French Navy after the start of the First World War in August 1914. She was stricken in 1936 and subsequently scrapped.