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Thursday 24 December 2015

French destroyer Sakalave (1917) in 1923

Launched at Maizuru, Japan in 1917, completed in 1917, displacement 675 tons, horsepower 10.000 hp, coal-fired reciprocating machinery and an armament of 1-4.7” gun, 4-12pd guns and 4 torpedo tubes.(1)

Source
Archive Dutch Naval Staff 1886-1942 (National Archive at the Hague, Netherlands)  inventory number 155. Fleets (the British Empire and foreign countries) on 1 February 1923.

Note
1. Brassey‘s naval and shipping annual 1923. Dimensions 272 x 24 x 7.10 Feet. Maximum trial speed 29 knots. The tubes were twins.