French destroyer Annamite

Sister ship Algérien in 1917
History
France
Name: Annamite
Namesake: Annamite
Ordered: 1916
Builder: Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Yokosuka, Japan
Laid down: 1917
Launched: 1917
Completed: 1917
In service: 1917
Struck: 18 August 1933
Fate: Scrapped after 1933
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:
  • 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 Annamite was one of a dozen Arabe-class destroyers built for the French Navy in Japan during the First World War.

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