French destroyer Touareg

History
Sister ship Algérien in 1917
France
Name:	Touareg
Namesake:	Tuareg people
Ordered:	1916
Builder:	Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Japan
Laid down:	1917
Launched:	9 June 1917
Completed:	1917
In service:	18 October 1917
Struck:	27 August 1935
Fate:	Scrapped after 1935
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:	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 Touareg was one of a dozen Arabe-class destroyers built for the French Navy in Japan during the First World War.

Citations

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)". 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.

Kaba-class destroyers

Imperial Japanese Navy	Kaba Kashiwa Sakaki Katsura Sugi Kaede Ume Kiri Kusunoki Matsu

French Navy Arabe class	Algérien Annamite Arabe Bambara Hova Kabyle Marocain Sakalave Sénégalais Somali Tonkinois Touareg

Preceded by: Urakaze class Followed by: Isokaze class

List of destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy List of destroyers of the French Navy

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