French destroyer Hova

Sister ship Algérien in 1917
History
France
Name	Hova
Namesake	Hova
Ordered	1916
Builder	Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Sasebo, Japan
Laid down	1917
Launched	July 1917
Completed	1917
In service	1917
Stricken	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 Hova was one of a dozen Template:Sclass-s built for the French Navy in Japan during the First World War.

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. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |lastauthoramp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
• Garier, Gérard (March 2001). "Les torpilleurs d'escadre français de construction japonaise: Le type 'Algérien' (1917 / 1936)". Navires & Historie. 06. Lela Presse: 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