The Chasseur class consisted of four destroyers built for the French Navy during the first decade of the twentieth century. They saw service during the First World War. One ship was sunk during the war and the survivors were scrapped afterwards. A fifth ship was sold to Peru.
Design and description The Chasseur class was based on the earlier , albeit with oil-fired boilers. They had a length between perpendiculars of , a beam of ,Couhat, p. 99 and a draft of . Designed to displaced , the ships displaced at deep load. Their crews numbered 77–179 men.
The destroyers were powered by three Parsons direct-drive steam turbines, each driving one propeller shafts using steam provided by four water-tube boilers of two different types. The engines were designed to produce which was intended to give the ships a speed of ; during their sea trials, the destroyers demonstrated speeds of . The ships carried of fuel oil ( still used coal) which gave them a range of at a cruising speed of .Couhat, pp. 99–100
The primary armament of the Chasseur-class ships consisted of six Modèle 1902 guns in single mounts, one each fore and aft of the superstructure and the others were distributed amidships. They were also fitted with three torpedo tubes. One of these was in a fixed mount in the bow and the other two were on single rotating mounts amidships.Gardiner & Gray, p. 202
Ships Name Builder Launched Fate Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, Le Havre 20 February 1909 Struck, October 1919. Schneider et Cie, Chalon-sur-Saône 1909 Sold incomplete to Peru as BAP Teniente Rodríguez in 1911; hulked in 1939. Normand, Le Havre 9 May 1910 Training ship from 1914. Struck, December 1927. Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne-sur-Mer 17 June 1909 Sunk after collision with , 5 June 1916. Ateliers et Chantiers de Penhoët, Saint-Nazaire 12 April 1910 Struck, October 1920.
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