French destroyer Arabe

French destroyer Arabe
Arabe at Toulon
Career (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 & 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:	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 French destroyer Arabe was the name ship of her class of destroyers built for the French Navy in Japan during the First World War.

References

• Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5. 
• 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)". Lela Presse. pp. 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. 

External links

• naval-history.net