Enseigne Roux-class destroyer

Class overview
Enseigne Roux at anchor
Name:	Enseigne Roux class
Builders:	Arsenal de Rochefort
Operators:	French Navy
Preceded by:	Bisson class
Succeeded by:	Aventurier class
Built:	1913–15
In commission:	1915–36
Planned:	3
Completed:	2
Scrapped:	2
General characteristics (as built)
Type:	Destroyer
Displacement:	850 t (837 long tons) (normal) 1,075 t (1,058 long tons) (deep load)
Length:	82.6 m (271 ft 0 in) (o/a)
Beam:	8.6 m (28 ft 3 in)
Draft:	3 m (9 ft 10 in)
Installed power:	17,000 PS (13,000 kW; 17,000 shp) 4 water-tube boilers
Propulsion:	2 shafts; 2 Steam turbines
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range:	1,400 nmi (2,600 km; 1,600 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement:	81
Armament:	2 × single 100 mm (3.9 in) Mle 1893 guns 4 × single 65 mm (2.6 in) Mle 1902 guns 2 × twin 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes

The Enseigne Roux class was a pair of destroyers built for the French Navy during World War I. The construction of a third ship of the class — Enseigne Gabolde — was suspended in 1914, and she was not completed until 1923 to a modified design.^[1]

Ships

Name	Builder	Launched	Fate
Enseigne Roux	Arsenal de Rochefort	13 July 1915	Struck, 1936
Mécanicien Principal Lestin	Arsenal de Rochefort	15 May 1915	Struck, 1936

Citations

↑ "Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1906-1921". books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2010.

References

Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
Friedman, Norman (2011). Naval Weapons of World War One. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-100-7.
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.

External links

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Enseigne Roux-class destroyers

Enseigne Roux Mécanicien Principal Lestin

Preceded by: Bisson class Followed by: Enseigne Gabolde

List of destroyers of the French Navy

French naval ship classes of World War I

Dreadnought battleships	Courbet Bretagne Normandie^X Lyon^X

Pre-dreadnought battleships	Brennus^S Charles Martel^S Carnot^S Jauréguiberry^S Masséna^S Bouvet^S Charlemagne Henri IV^S Iéna^S Suffren^S République Liberté Danton

Armoured cruisers	Dupuy de Lôme^S Amiral Charner Pothuau^S Jeanne d'Arc^S Gueydon Dupleix Gloire Léon Gambetta Jules Michelet^S Ernest Renan^S Edgar Quinet

Protected cruisers	Amiral Cécille^S Forbin Troude Linois Friant Descartes D'Assas D'Entrecasteaux^S Guichen^S Châteaurenault^S Destrées Jurien de la Gravière^S

Destroyers	Durandal Framée Pertuisane Arquebuse Claymore Branlebas Spahi Voltigeur Chasseur Bouclier Bisson Enseigne Roux Aventurier Arabe

Submarines	Sirène Aigrette Oméga Émeraude Circé Pluviôse Brumaire Archimède^S Mariotte^S Amiral Bourgois^S Charles Brun^S Clorinde Gustave Zédé Amphitrite Bellone Dupuy de Lôme Diane Fulton Lagrange Armide O'Byrne

Seaplane carriers	Foudre^S

S Single ship of class C Completed after the war X Cancelled

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