Sister ship Algérien in 1917
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History | |
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France | |
Name: | Somali |
Namesake: | Somali people |
Ordered: | 1916 |
Builder: | Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Kobe, Japan |
Laid down: | 1917 |
Launched: | 21 July or 20 June 1917 |
Completed: | 1917 |
In service: | 8 November 1917 |
Struck: | 27 August 1935 |
Fate: | Scrapped after 1935 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Destroyer |
Displacement: | 685 t (674 long tons) |
Length: | |
Beam: | 7.33 m (24 ft 1 in) |
Draft: | 2.39 m (7 ft 10 in) |
Installed power: |
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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 |
Armament: |
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The French destroyer Somali was one of a dozen Arabe-class destroyers built for the French Navy in Japan during the First World War.