French destroyer Téméraire

	Téméraire at anchor
History
France
Name	Téméraire
Builder	Ateliers et Chantiers de Bretagne, Nantes
Launched	8 December 1911
Completed	2 November 1914
Stricken	1936
Fate	Scrapped after 1936
General characteristics
Class and type	Aventurier-class destroyer
Displacement	930 t (915 long tons) (normal); 1,250 t (1,230 long tons) (deep load);
Length	88.5 m (290 ft 4 in) (o/a)
Beam	8.6 m (28 ft 3 in)
Draft	3.1 m (10 ft 2 in)
Installed power	5 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 18,000 shp (13,000 kW);
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 × single 47 mm (1.9 in) AA gun; 4 × single 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes;

The French destroyer Téméraire was one of four Aventurier-class destroyers that was built for the Argentine Navy in the early 1910s. The ships were taken over by the French Navy after the start of the First World War in August 1914. She was stricken in 1936 and subsequently scrapped.

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