French destroyer Enseigne Roux

History
Enseigne Roux at anchor
France
Name:	Enseigne Roux
Builder:	Arsenal de Rochefort
Laid down:	13 December 1913
Launched:	13 July 1915
Completed:	1916
Struck:	1936
Fate:	Scrapped after 1935
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type:	Enseigne Roux-class 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 French destroyer Enseigne Roux was the name ship of her class of destroyers built for the French Navy during the First World War.

Citations

Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
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.

Enseigne Roux-class destroyers

Enseigne Roux Mécanicien Principal Lestin

Preceded by: Bisson class Followed by: Enseigne Gabolde

List of destroyers of the French Navy

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