French destroyer Opiniâtre

Sister ship Temeraire at anchor
History
France
Name: Opiniâtre
Builder: Dyle et Bacalan, Bordeaux
Launched: 1911
In service: 16 September 1914
Struck: 1933
Fate: Scrapped, 1935
General characteristics
Class and type: Aventurier-class destroyer
Displacement: 930 t (915 long tons)
Length:
  • 88.53 m (290 ft 5 in) (o/a)
  • 86.28 m (283 ft 1 in) (waterline)
Beam: 8.6 m (28 ft 3 in)
Draft: 3.1 m (10 ft 2 in)
Installed power:
Propulsion: 2 shafts; 2 Steam turbines
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range: 1,850 nmi (3,430 km; 2,130 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 140
Armament:
  • 4 × single 100 mm (3.9 in) guns
  • 1 × 47 mm (1.9 in) gun
  • 4 × single 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

The French destroyer Opiniâtre was one of four Aventurier-class destroyers that was built for the Argentine Navy in the early 1910s. All four ships were taken over by the French Navy after the start of the First World War in August 1914.

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