French destroyer Frondeur

The French destroyer Frondeur was one of 14 s built for the French Navy during the 1920s.

Design and description

The L'Adroit class was a slightly enlarged and improved version of the preceding Bourrasque class. The ships had an overall length of, a beam of, and a draft of. The ships displaced at standard load and at deep load. Fougueux was powered by two Zoelly-Schneider geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by three du Temple boilers. The turbines were designed to produce, which would propel the ships at. The ships carried of fuel oil which gave them a range of at. The crew numbered 8 officers and 134 crewmen in peacetime and 9 officers and 153 crewmen during wartime.
The main armament of the L'Adroit-class ships consisted of four Canon de mm Modèle 1924 guns in single mounts, one superfiring pair each fore and aft of the superstructure. Their anti-aircraft armament consisted of a pair of Canon de mm Modèle 1925 guns, one mount on each broadside abreast the rear superstructure. For defense against strafing aircraft the ships were equipped with a pair of mounts for two or four Hotchkiss Mle 1914 machine guns abreast the bridge. The ships carried two above-water triple sets of torpedo tubes. A pair of depth charge chutes were built into their stern; these housed a total of sixteen depth charges. In addition two Thornycroft depth-charge throwers were fitted at the end of the forecastle for which six depth charges were carried.