French destroyer Sakalave

The French destroyer Sakalave was one of a dozen Arabe-class destroyers built for the French Navy in Japan during the First World War. During the Russian Civil War on March 9, 1921 she damaged the Elipidifor No.415 ( Soviet Navy) at Anapa in the Black Sea and caused the ship to be beached and abandoned.[1]

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Sakalave.
Sister ship Algérien in 1917
History
France
Name: Sakalave
Namesake: Sakalava people
Ordered: 1916
Builder: Maizuru Naval Arsenal, Maizuru, Japan
Laid down: 1917
Launched: 1917
Completed: 1917
In service: 9 November 1917
Struck: 14 June 1936
Fate: Scrapped after 1936
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:
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:

Citations
  1. "Elipidifor type multi purpose ships, USSR". Navypedia. Retrieved 14 March 2017.

References
  • "Elipidifor type multi purpose ships, USSR". Navypedia. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
  • Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
  • Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal, eds. (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1921. 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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