The French destroyer Opiniâtre was one of four s 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 scrapped in 1935.
Design and description
The ships had an overall length of , a beam of , and a draft of . They displaced at normal load and at deep load. Their crew numbered 140 men.Smigielski, p. 204
The ships were powered by a pair of Rateau steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by five mixed-firing Foster-Wheeler boilers. The engines were designed to produce which was intended to give the ships a speed of . The ships carried of coal and of fuel oil that gave them a range of at a cruising speed of .Couhat, p. 117
The primary armament of the Aventurier-class ships consisted of four guns in single mounts, one on the forecastle, one between the funnels, and two on the quarterdeck, in front and behind the searchlight platform. They were fitted with a AA gun for anti-aircraft defence. The ships were also equipped with four single mounts for torpedo tubes amidships.
Construction and career Opinâtre was ordered from Dyle et Bacalan and was launched in 1911 with the name of La Rioja at its Bordeaux shipyard. The ship was completed on 16 September 1914.
On 27 May 1915, Opiniâtre and her sister ship escorted the armored cruiser as she transported Vice-Admiral () Augustin Boué de Lapeyrère, commander of the 1st Naval Army (), to Taranto, Italy, for a meeting with Admiral Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi (), Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Italian Navy ().Prévoteaux, I, p. 116
She was struck in 1933 and broken up for scrap in 1935.
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