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 World War I, First World War. One ship was sunk during the war and the survivors were ship breaking, 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 (nautical), beam of ,Couhat, p. 99 and a draft (hull), draft of . Designed to Displacement (ship), displaced , the ships displaced at deep load. Their crews numbered 77–179 men. The destroyers were powered by three Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company, Parsons Direct-drive mechanism, 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 Canon de 65 mm Modèle 1891, 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 (ship), bow and the other two were on single rotating mounts amidships.Gardiner & Gray, p. 202

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