Destroyer class
Japanese destroyer Shimakaze (1942)
Shimakaze class
The class in numbers
- 1 Completed
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Preceded by
- Yūgumo-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Super Shimakaze-class destroyer (planned)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 2,570 long tons (2,611 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 3,300 long tons (3,353 t)
- Length
- 129.5 m (424.9 ft) OA
- Speed
- 40.9 knots (75.7 km/h, 47.1 mph)
- Complement
- 267
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- As Built: 6 × 12.7 cm Type 3 dual-purpose guns (3x2)
- 6 × 25 mm Type 96 25mm anti-aircraft guns (2x3)
- 2 × 13.2 mm anti-aircraft machine guns (1x2)
- 15 × 610 mm torpedo tubes (3x5)
- 18 depth charges
- Early 1944 Refit: 6 × 12.7 cm Type 3 dual-purpose guns (3x2)
- 16 × Type 96 anti-aircraft guns (4x3, 2x2) (increased in June to 28)
- 15 × 610 mm torpedo tubes (3x5)
- 36 depth charges
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Shimakaze (1942) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.