Enseigne Roux-class destroyer

Enseigne Roux at anchor
Class overview
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

1. "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

• Enseigne Roux class on navypedia.org