The French destroyer Kabyle was one of a dozen s built for the French Navy in Japan during the First World War.
Design and description The Arabe-class ships had an overall length of , a length between perpendiculars of a beam of , and a draft of .Garier, p. 33 The ships displaced at normal load.Smigielski, p. 205 They were powered by three vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by four mixed-firing Kampon Yarrow-type boilers. The engines were designed to produce , which would propel the ships at . During their sea trials, the Arabe class reached .Garier, pp. 34, 36 The ships carried enough coal and fuel oil which gave them a range of at .Couhat, p. 118 Their crew consisted of 5 officers and 104 crewmen.Garier, p. 37
The main armament of the Arabe-class ships was a single Type 41 gun, mounted before the bridge on the forecastle. Their secondary armament consisted of four Type 41 guns in single mounts; two of these were positioned abreast the middle funnel and the others were on the centerline further aft. One of these latter guns was on a high-angle mount and served as an anti-aircraft gun. The ships carried two above-water twin mounts for torpedo tubes. In 1917–18, a rack for eight depth charges was added.Garier, pp. 36–37
Construction and career
Kabyle was ordered from Sasebo Naval Arsenal and was launched on 7 June 1917 and completed on 25 July. She was stricken on 14 June 1936 and subsequently broken up for scrap.Garier, p. 34
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