Spahi-class destroyer

Class overview
Name: Spahi class
Operators:  French Navy
Preceded by: Claymore class
Succeeded by: Voltigeur class
Built: 1906–12
In service: 1910–30
Completed: 7
Lost: 1
Scrapped: 6
General characteristics
Type: Destroyer
Displacement: 539 t (530 long tons)
Length: 64–65.8 m (210 ft 0 in–215 ft 11 in) (p/p)
Beam: 6.05–6.6 m (19 ft 10 in–21 ft 8 in)
Draft: 2.3–2.4 m (7 ft 7 in–7 ft 10 in)
Installed power:
Propulsion: 2 shafts; 2 Triple-expansion steam engines
Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range: 1,000–1,200 nmi (1,900–2,200 km; 1,200–1,400 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 77–79
Armament:

The Spahi class was a group of seven destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. One ship was lost during the First World War, but the others survived to be scrapped afterwards.

Losses

  • Carabinier : ran aground at Latakia, Syria on 13 November 1918 and was scuttled 2 days later.[1]

Ships

Citations

  1. ↑ "French Navy". Naval History. Retrieved 21 February 2013.

Bibliography

  • Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
  • Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.
  • Osborne, Eric W. (2005). Destroyers - An Illustrated History of Their Impact. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio. ISBN 1-85109-479-2.
  • 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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