Kaba-class destroyer
Kaba departing Ryojun, 1925
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Kaba class |
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 Imperial Japanese Navy
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| Preceded by: | Urakaze class |
| Succeeded by: | Isokaze class |
| Subclasses: | Arabe class (French Navy) |
| In commission: | 1915–1932 |
| Completed: | 10 |
| Retired: | 10 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Destroyer |
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| Beam: | 7.3 m (24 ft) |
| Draught: | 2.3 m (7.5 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 3-shaft reciprocating, 2 heavy oil-fired + 2 oil/coal-fired boilers 9,500 ihp (7,100 kW) |
| Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Range: | 1,200 nautical miles (2,200 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 94 |
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The Kaba-class destroyers (樺型駆逐艦? Kabagata kuchikukan) were a class of ten destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Each was named after a variety of tree.
At the outbreak of World War I, the Imperial Japanese Navy had a total of two modern destroyers capable of overseas deployment: the Sakura class Sakura and Tachibana. It was clear that this force would not enable Japan to fulfill its obligations under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, so the Japanese government pushed through an Emergency Naval Expansion Budget in fiscal 1914 to allow for the construction of ten new destroyers. As speed was of the essence, the orders were given to both government and civilian shipyards (as was the case with the construction of the Russo-Japanese War vintage Kamikaze-class).
Twelve more vessels were built by the same shipyards in Japan per an order from the French Navy, where they were designated the Tribal class (or Arabe class) named Algérien, Annamite, Arabe, Bambara, Hova, Kabyle, Marocain, Sakalave, Sénégalais, Somali, Tonkinois, and Touareg. The Arabe class were the most advanced destroyers in the French inventory in World War I.
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