Arabe-class destroyer
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Arabe class |
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| Operators: |
 French Navy
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| Preceded by: | Aventurier class |
| Succeeded by: | Enseigne Gabolde |
| Built: | 1917 |
| In service: | 1917–36 |
| In commission: | 1917–36 |
| Completed: | 12 |
| Scrapped: | 12 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Displacement: | 685 t (674 long tons) |
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| Beam: | 7.33 m (24 ft 1 in) |
| Draft: | 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in) |
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| Propulsion: | 3 shafts; 3 vertical triple-expansion steam engines |
| Speed: | 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph) |
| Range: | 2,000 nmi (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement: | 109 |
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The Arabe-class destroyers was a group of twelve destroyers built for the French Navy during the First World War. All the ships were built in Japan, as an export version of the Kaba class, and were named after individual ethnic peoples (Algerians, Senegalese etc.) under the domination of the French Empire at the time.
The French Navy ordered the Arabe-class ships from Japan as it was in desperate need of additional destroyers and there was no capacity to build more in France, Great Britain or the United States. They had an overall length of 82.26 meters (269 ft 11 in), a length between perpendiculars of 79.4 meters (260 ft 6 in) a beam of 7.33 meters (24 ft 1 in), and a draft of 2.39 meters (7 ft 10 in). The ships displaced 865 metric tons (851 long tons) at normal load. They were powered by three vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by four mixed-firing Kampon Yarrow-type boilers. The engines were designed to produce 10,000 metric horsepower (7,400 kW; 9,900 shp), which would propel the ships at 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph). During their sea trials, the Arabe class reached 29.16–30.44 knots (54.00–56.37 km/h; 33.56–35.03 mph). The ships carried 102 metric tons (100 long tons) and 118 metric tons (116 long tons) of fuel oil which gave them a range of 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph). Their crew consisted of 5 officers and 104 crewmen.
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