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French destroyer Arabe

Arabe type destroyer.jpg
Arabe at Toulon
History
France
Name: Arabe
Namesake: Arab people
Ordered: 1916
Builder: Kure Naval Arsenal, Kure, Japan
Laid down: 1917
Launched: 1917
Completed: 1917
In service: 1917
Struck: 14 June 1936
Fate: Scrapped after 1936
General characteristics
Class and type: Arabe-class destroyer
Displacement: 685 t (674 long tons)
Length:
  • 82.26 m (269 ft 11 in) (o/a)
  • 79.4 m (260 ft 6 in) (p/p)
Beam: 7.33 m (24 ft 1 in)
Draft: 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in)
Installed power:
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
Armament:
  • 1 × single 120 mm (4.7 in) gun
  • 4 × single 76 mm (3.0 in) guns
  • 2 × twin 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

The French destroyer Arabe was the name ship of her class of destroyers built for the French Navy in Japan during the First World War.



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