Arabe-class destroyer

Class overview

Name:	Arabe class
Operators:	French Navy
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)
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:	10,000 PS (7,400 kW; 9,900 shp) 4 Kampon water-tube boilers
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 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.^[1]

Design and description

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).^[2] The ships displaced 865 metric tons (851 long tons) at normal load.^[3] 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).^[4] 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).^[5] Their crew consisted of 5 officers and 104 crewmen.^[6]

The main armament of the Arabe-class ships was a single Type 41 12-centimeter (4.7 in) gun, mounted before the bridge on the forecastle. Their secondary armament consisted of four Type 41 76-millimeter (3.0 in) guns in single mounts; two of these were positioned abreast the middle funnel and the others were on the centerline further aft. One of these latter guns was on a high-angle mount and served as an anti-aircraft gun. The ships carried two above-water twin mounts for 450-millimeter (17.7 in) torpedo tubes. In 1917–18, a rack for eight 75-kilogram (165 lb) depth charges was added.^[7]

Ships

Algérien — launched 1917, struck 1936.
Annamite — launched 1917, struck 1933.
Arabe — launched 1917, struck 1936.
Bambara — launched 1917, struck 1933.
Hova — launched 1917, struck 1936.
Kabyle — launched 1917, struck 1936.
Marocain — launched 1917, struck 1935.
Sakalave — launched 1917, struck 1936.
Sénégalais — launched 1917, struck 1936.
Somali — launched 1917, struck 1935.
Tonkinois — launched 1917, struck 1936.
Touareg — launched 1917, struck 1935.

Citations

↑ "Arabe French destroyer class". battleships-cruisers.co.uk. Retrieved 2 July 2010.
↑ Garier, p. 33
↑ Gardiner & Gray, p. 205
↑ Garier, pp. 34, 36
↑ Couhat, p. 118
↑ Garier, p. 37
↑ Garier, pp. 36–37

References

Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
Friedman, Norman (2011). Naval Weapons of World War One. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-100-7.
Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal, eds. (1984). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1922. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-907-3.
Garier, Gérard (March 2001). "Les torpilleurs d'escadre français de construction japonaise: Le type 'Algérien' (1917 / 1936)". Navires & Historie. Lela Presse. 06: 33–51. ISSN 1280-4290.
Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). "Classement par types". Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 2, 1870 - 2006. Toulon: Roche. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

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Kaba-class destroyers

Imperial Japanese Navy	Kaba Kashiwa Sakaki Katsura Sugi Kaede Ume Kiri Kusunoki Matsu

French Navy Arabe class	Algérien Annamite Arabe Bambara Hova Kabyle Marocain Sakalave Sénégalais Somali Tonkinois Touareg

Preceded by: Urakaze class Followed by: Isokaze class

List of destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy List of destroyers of the French Navy

French naval ship classes of World War I

Dreadnought battleships	Courbet Bretagne Normandie^X Lyon^X

Pre-dreadnought battleships	Brennus^S Charles Martel^S Carnot^S Jauréguiberry^S Masséna^S Bouvet^S Charlemagne Henri IV^S Iéna^S Suffren^S République Liberté Danton

Armoured cruisers	Dupuy de Lôme^S Amiral Charner Pothuau^S Jeanne d'Arc^S Gueydon Dupleix Gloire Léon Gambetta Jules Michelet^S Ernest Renan^S Edgar Quinet

Protected cruisers	Amiral Cécille^S Forbin Troude Linois Friant Descartes D'Assas D'Entrecasteaux^S Guichen^S Châteaurenault^S Destrées Jurien de la Gravière^S

Destroyers	Durandal Framée Pertuisane Arquebuse Claymore Branlebas Spahi Voltigeur Chasseur Bouclier Bisson Enseigne Roux Aventurier Arabe

Submarines	Sirène Aigrette Oméga Émeraude Circé Pluviôse Brumaire Archimède^S Mariotte^S Amiral Bourgois^S Charles Brun^S Clorinde Gustave Zédé Amphitrite Bellone Dupuy de Lôme Diane Fulton Lagrange Armide O'Byrne

Seaplane carriers	Foudre^S

S Single ship of class C Completed after the war X Cancelled

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