Class overview | |
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Name: | Arabe class |
Operators: | French Navy |
Completed: | 12 |
Retired: | 12 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Destroyer |
Displacement: | 685 tonnes (674 long tons) |
Speed: | 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph) |
Range: | 2,000 nmi (3,700 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement: | 86 |
Armament: | • 1 × 120 mm (4.7 in) gun • 4 × 76 mm (3 in) guns • 4 × 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes |
The Arabe class was a class of twelve destroyers of the French Navy launched in 1917, used during the First World War. All the ships were built in Japan, as an export version of the Kaba class, and were named after people under the domination of the French empire at the time.
The destroyers were stationed in the Mediterranean Sea, and during the late 1920's they were based at Brest as part of the Northern Squadron. They were split into two groups, with seven going to the 11th Squadron at Taranto on escort duties and the other with the 3rd Division at Mudros. During the Rif War of 1924 some of the class were employed off Morocco. All the ship of the class were scrapped between 1933 and 1936.[1]
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