French destroyer Carabinier

Sister ship Mameluck at anchor
History
France
Name:	Carabiner
Namesake:	Carabinier
Builder:	Ateliers et Chantier de Saint-Nazaire Penhoët, Saint-Nazaire
Launched:	10 October 1908
Completed:	October 1909
Fate:	Wrecked 13 November 1918 Scuttled 15 November 1918
General characteristics
Class and type:	Spahi-class destroyer
Displacement:	539 t (530 long tons)
Length:	64.2 m (210 ft 8 in) (p/p)
Beam:	6.5 m (21 ft 4 in)
Draft:	2.4 m (7 ft 10 in)
Installed power:	7,500 ihp (5,593 kW) 4 Guyot boilers
Propulsion:	2 shafts; 2 Triple-expansion steam engines
Speed:	28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range:	1,000–1,200 nmi (1,900–2,200 km; 1,200–1,400 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	77–79
Armament:	6 × single 65 mm (2.6 in) gun 3 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes

Carabiner was one of seven Spahi-class destroyers built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century.

On 13 November 1918, two days after the conclusion of World War I, Carabinier ran aground at Latakia, Syria, on the coast of the Ottoman Empire. She was scuttled on 15 November 1918.^[1]

References

1. "French Navy". Naval History. Retrieved 21 February 2013.

Bibliography

• Couhat, Jean Labayle (1974). French Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-0445-5.
• Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal (1985). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-245-5.