French destroyer Tonkinois

Sister ship Algérien in 1917
History
France
Name:	Tonkinois
Namesake:	Tonkinese people
Ordered:	1916
Builder:	Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Japan
Laid down:	1917
Launched:	1917
Completed:	1917
In service:	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:	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 Tonkinois was one of a dozen Arabe-class destroyers built for the French Navy in Japan during the First World War.

Citations

References

• 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.

External links

• naval-history.net