Spahi-class destroyer

Class overview
French destroyer Mameluck at anchor
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:	7,500–9,000 ihp (5,593–6,711 kW) 4 Guyot, Normand or Du Temple boilers
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:	6 × single 65 mm (2.6 in) gun 3 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

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

↑ "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.

External links

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Spahi-class destroyers

Spahi Hussard Carabinier Mameluck Lansquenet Enseigne Henry Aspirant Herber

Preceded by: Branlebas class Followed by: Voltigeur class

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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