Spahi-class destroyer


The Spahi class consisted 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.

Design and description

The Spahi-class was over 50 percent larger than the preceding to match the increase in size of foreign destroyers. They varied slightly in size due to building practices of each shipyard.
They had an length between perpendiculars of, a beam of, and a draft of. The ships displaced at deep load.
The destroyers were powered by two triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by four water-tube boilers of three different types. and used Normand boilers, and had du Temple boilers while the remaining three ships were fitted with Guyot boilers. The engines were designed to produce, except for Spahi with, which was intended to give the sister ships a speed of. During their sea trials, they reached speeds of. The ships carried of coal which gave them a range of at a cruising speed of. Lansquenet had a capacity of which gave her a range of at the same cruising speed.
The primary armament of the Spahi-class ships consisted of six Modèle 1902 guns in single mounts, one each fore and aft of the superstructure and the others were distributed amidships. They were also fitted with three torpedo tubes. One of these was in a fixed mount in the bow and the other two were on single rotating mounts amidships.

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