Japanese destroyer Minekaze
Service
- as Minekaze? — 31 March 19441,670 days of the war
- Name
- Minekaze
- Builder
- Maizuru Naval Arsenal
- Ordered
- 1917
- Laid down
- 20 April 1918
- Launched
- 8 February 1919
- Struck
- 31 March 1944
- Fate
- Sunk on 10 February 1944 (1944)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,344 long tons (1,366 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,650 long tons (1,676 t)
- Length
- 102.5 m (336.3 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.04 m (29.7 ft)
- Draught
- 2.9 m (9.5 ft)
- Speed
- 39 knots (72.2 km/h, 44.9 mph)
- Range
- 3,600 nmi (6,667 km)
- Complement
- 148
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
Minekaze was a Minekaze-class destroyer built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Maizuru Naval Arsenal laid her keel on 20 April 1918. She was launched on 8 February 1919.
Her class ran to twelve ships. The class followed the Momi-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Wakatake-class destroyer.
She displaced 1,344 long tons standard and 1,650 long tons at full load. She measured 102.5 m (336 ft) long with a beam of 9.0 m (30 ft). Her designed speed was 39 knots, and she carried a complement of 148.
Her main battery was four 120 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 38,500 shp through two shafts.
She was in commission for 1,670 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 31 March 1944.
She was sunk on 10 February 1944, at 23°12′N 121°30′E. 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
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts; 2 × Kampon geared steam turbines
- Power
- 38500 shp
- 4 × Kampon water-tube boilers
- Armament
- 4 × single 12 cm Type 3 guns
- 3 × twin 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
- 20 × mines
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Akikaze
- Japanese destroyer Hakaze
- Japanese destroyer Hokaze
- Japanese destroyer Nadakaze
- Japanese destroyer Okikaze
- Japanese destroyer Sawakaze (1919)
- Japanese destroyer Shimakaze (1920)
- Japanese destroyer Shiokaze
- Japanese destroyer Tachikaze (1921)
- Japanese destroyer Yakaze
- Japanese destroyer Yūkaze
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Minekaze on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Japanese book "History of Japanese Destroyers" (1992) published by Kaigunsha, p.67 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons