Japanese destroyer Isokaze (1939)
Service
- as Isokaze30 November 1940 — 25 May 19451,639 days of the war
- Name
- Isokaze
- Pennant / hull number
- 1939
- Builder
- Sasebo Naval Arsenal
- Ordered
- 1937
- Laid down
- 25 November 1938
- Launched
- 19 June 1939
- Commissioned
- 30 November 1940
- Struck
- 25 May 1945
- Fate
- Scuttled, 7 April 1945 (1945)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 2,490 long tons (2,530 t)
- Length
- 118.5 m (388.8 ft)
- Beam
- 10.8 m (35.4 ft)
- Draught
- 3.8 m (12.5 ft)
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Complement
- 239
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Isokaze was a Kagerō-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1939. Sasebo Naval Arsenal laid her keel on 25 November 1938. Launched on 19 June 1939, she entered service on 30 November 1940.
19 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Asashio-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Yūgumo-class destroyer.
Displacement was 2,490 long tons. She measured 118.5 m (389 ft) long with a beam of 10.8 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 35 knots, and she carried a complement of 239.
Her main battery was six 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,639 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 25 May 1945.
She was scuttled on 7 April 1945. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- 6 × 127 mm/50 caliber DP guns
- up to 28 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns
- up to 4 × 13.2 mm AA guns
- 8 × 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 36 depth charges
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Akigumo (1941)
- Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze (1939)
- Japanese destroyer Arashi
- Japanese destroyer Hagikaze
- Japanese destroyer Hamakaze (1940)
- Japanese destroyer Hatsukaze
- Japanese destroyer Hayashio
- Japanese destroyer Kagerō (1938)
- Japanese destroyer Kuroshio
- Japanese destroyer Maikaze
- Japanese destroyer Natsushio
- Japanese destroyer Nowaki (1940)
- Japanese destroyer Oyashio
- Japanese destroyer Shiranui (1938)
- Japanese destroyer Tanikaze (1940)
- Japanese destroyer Tokitsukaze (1939)
- Japanese destroyer Urakaze (1940)
- Japanese destroyer Yukikaze (1939)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Isokaze (1939) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Shizuo Fukui — Kure Maritime Museum, Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album: Destroyers , edited by Kazushige Todaka, p. 99; also published in Shizuo Fukui, Nihon No Gunkan: Shashinshu , published 1970 , p.200 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons