{{Short description|Class of French naval vessel}} {{Infobox ship |section1={{Infobox ship/image |image=Chasseur-Marius Bar.jpg |image_caption=A postcard of {{ship|French destroyer|Chasseur||2}} at anchor }}

|section2={{Infobox ship/class overview |name= ''Chasseur'' class |builders= |operators=*{{navy|France}} *{{navy|Peru}} |class_before={{sclass|Voltigeur|destroyer|4}} |class_after={{sclass|Bouclier|destroyer|4}} |cost= |built_range=1909–1910 |in_service_range= |in_commission_range=1909–1927 |total_ships_completed=5 |total_ships_lost=1 |total_ships_scrapped=3 }}

|section3={{Infobox ship/characteristics |hide_header= |header_caption= |type=Destroyer |displacement=*{{convert|450|t|LT|0|abbr=on|lk=on}} (designed) *{{convert|520|t|LT|0|abbr=on}} (deep load) |length={{convert|64.2|-|65.4|m|ftin|abbr=on}} (p/p) |beam={{convert|6.5|-|6.7|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |draft={{convert|3.1|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |power=*3–4 water-tube boilers *{{convert|7200|shp|0|abbr=on|lk=on}} |propulsion=3 shafts; 3 steam turbines |speed={{convert|28|kn|lk=in}} |range={{convert|1400|-|1500|nmi|lk=in|abbr=on}} at {{convert|10|kn}} |complement=77–79 |armament=*6 × {{convert|65|mm|in|abbr=on}} guns *3 × {{convert|450|mm|in|1|abbr=on}} torpedo tubes |notes= }} }} 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 {{sclass|Spahi|destroyer|4}}, albeit with oil-fired boilers.<ref name=gg2/> They had a length between perpendiculars of {{convert|64.2|-|65.4|m|ftin|sp=us}}, a beam of {{convert|6.5|-|6.7|m|ftin|sp=us}},<ref name=c5>Couhat, p. 99</ref> and a draft of {{convert|3.1|m|ftin|sp=us}}. Designed to displaced {{convert|450|t|LT|sp=us|lk=on|0}}, the ships displaced {{cvt|520|t|LT|0}} at deep load. Their crews numbered 77–179 men.<ref name=gg2/>

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 {{convert|7200|shp|kW|lk=on}} which was intended to give the ships a speed of {{convert|28|kn|lk=in}}; during their sea trials, the destroyers demonstrated speeds of {{convert|28.6|-|31|kn}}. The ships carried {{cvt|135|t|LT|0|sp=us}} of fuel oil ({{ship|French destroyer|Cavalier||2}} still used coal) which gave them a range of {{convert|1520|nmi|lk=in}} at a cruising speed of {{convert|10|kn}}.<ref>Couhat, pp. 99–100</ref>

The primary armament of the ''Chasseur''-class ships consisted of six {{convert|65|mm|in|adj=on|sp=us}} 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 {{convert|450|mm|in|adj=on|1|sp=us}} torpedo tubes. One of these was in a fixed mount in the bow and the other two were on single rotating mounts amidships.<ref name=gg2>Gardiner & Gray, p. 202</ref>

== Ships == {| class="wikitable" |- ! Name ||Builder ||Launched ||Fate |- |{{ship|French destroyer|Chasseur||2}} ||Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, Le Havre ||20 February 1909 ||Struck, October 1919. |- |{{ship|French destroyer|Actée||2}} ||Schneider et Cie, Chalon-sur-Saône || 1909 || Sold incomplete to Peru as BAP ''Teniente Rodríguez'' in 1911; hulked in 1939. |- |{{ship|French destroyer|Cavalier||2}} ||Normand, Le Havre ||9 May 1910 ||Training ship from 1914. Struck, December 1927. |- |{{ship|French destroyer|Fantassin||2}} ||Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne-sur-Mer ||17 June 1909 ||Sunk after collision with {{Ship|French destroyer|Mameluck|1909|2}}, 5 June 1916. |- |{{ship|French destroyer|Janissaire||2}} ||Ateliers et Chantiers de Penhoët, Saint-Nazaire ||12 April 1910 ||Struck, October 1920. |- |}

==References== {{reflist|30em}}

==Bibliography== {{Commons category|Chasseur class destroyers|Chasseur-class destroyer}} *{{cite book|last=Couhat|first=Jean Labayle|title=French Warships of World War I|year=1974|publisher=Ian Allan|location=London|isbn=0-7110-0445-5}} *{{cite book |last1=Freivogel |first1=Zvonimir |title=The Great War in the Adriatic Sea 1914–1918 |date=2019 |publisher=Despot Infinitus |location=Zagreb |isbn=978-953-8218-40-8}} *{{cite book|last1=Gardiner|first1=Robert|last2=Gray|first2=Randal|title=Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921|year=1985|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=London|isbn=0-85177-245-5|name-list-style=amp}} * {{cite book |first=Eric W. |last=Osborne|year=2005 |title=Destroyers - An Illustrated History of Their Impact |isbn=1-85109-479-2 |publisher=ABC-Clio |location=Santa Barbara, California}} *{{cite book |last1=Prévoteaux |first1=Gérard |title=La marine française dans la Grande guerre: les combattants oubliés: Tome I 1914–1915 |date=2017 |publisher=Éditions Lela presse |location=Le Vigen, France |isbn=978-2-37468-000-2|trans-title=The French Navy during the Great War: The Forgotten Combatants, Book I 1914–1915|series=Collection Navires & Histoire des Marines du Mond|volume=23}} *{{cite book |last1=Prévoteaux |first1=Gérard |title=La marine française dans la Grande guerre: les combattants oubliés: Tome II 1916–1918 |date=2017 |publisher=Éditions Lela presse |location=Le Vigen, France |isbn=978-2-37468-001-9|trans-title=The French Navy during the Great War: The Forgotten Combatants, Book II 1916–1918|series=Collection Navires & Histoire des Marines du Mond|volume=27}} * {{cite book|last=Roberts|first=Stephen S.|title=French Warships in the Age of Steam 1859–1914: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|year=2021 |location=Barnsley, UK|publisher=Seaforth Publishing |isbn=978-1-5267-4533-0}} * {{cite book |first=Jean-Michel |last=Roche |year=2005 |chapter=Classement par types |title=Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 2, 1870 - 2006 |isbn=978-2-9525917-0-6 |oclc=165892922 |publisher=Roche |location=Toulon}} {{Chasseur class destroyer}} {{WWI French ships}}

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