Voltigeur-class destroyer

	A lithograph of Voltigeur
Class overview
Name	Voltigeur class
Operators	French Navy
Preceded by	Spahi class
Succeeded by	Chasseur class
Built	1908–10
In service	1910–21
Completed	2
Scrapped	2
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	450 t (443 long tons) (designed); 590 t (581 long tons) (deep load);
Length	63–65.5 m (206 ft 8 in – 214 ft 11 in) (p/p)
Beam	6.4–6.8 m (21 ft 0 in – 22 ft 4 in)
Draft	2.9–3.1 m (9 ft 6 in – 10 ft 2 in)
Installed power	4 water-tube boilers; 7,500 shp (5,593 kW);
Propulsion	3 shafts; 1 triple-expansion steam engine and 2 steam turbines
Speed	28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range	1,520 nmi (2,820 km; 1,750 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	76–77
Armament	6 × single 65 mm (2.6 in) guns; 3 × single 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes;

The Voltigeur class was a pair of destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. Both ships survived the First World War and were scrapped afterwards.

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