Imperial Japanese Navy — Destroyer class
Minekaze-class destroyer
Minekaze class
The class in numbers
- 15 Completed
- 11 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- Imperial Japanese Navy
- In commission
- 1919–1946
- Preceded by
- Momi-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Wakatake-class destroyer
- Builders
- Maizuru Naval Arsenal (10)
- Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Eng. Co.
- Nagasaki Shipyard (5)
- Subclasses
- Nokaze class
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,345 long tons (1,367 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,650 long tons (1,676 t)
- Length
- 102.6 m (336.6 ft) OA
- Speed
- 39 knots (72.2 km/h, 44.9 mph)
- Complement
- 148
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
- Armament
- 4 × single 120 mm guns
- 2 × 7.7mm machine guns
- 3 × twin 533 mm torpedo tubes
- 20 × mines
Roster
Holding 12 of the 15 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese destroyer Akikaze | 1921 | Sunk 1944 | |
| Japanese destroyer Hakaze | 1920 | Sunk 1943 | |
| Japanese destroyer Hokaze | 1921 | Sunk 1944 | |
| Japanese destroyer Minekaze | 1919 | Sunk 1944 | |
| Japanese destroyer Nadakaze | 1920 | Sunk 1945 | |
| Japanese destroyer Okikaze | 1920 | Sunk 1943 | |
| Japanese destroyer Sawakaze (1919) | 1919 | 1919 | Scuttled 1948 |
| Japanese destroyer Shimakaze (1920) | 1920 | 1920 | Sunk 1943 |
| Japanese destroyer Shiokaze | 1921 | Scuttled | |
| Japanese destroyer Tachikaze (1921) | 1921 | 1921 | Sunk 1944 |
| Japanese destroyer Yakaze | 1920 | Scrapped 1948 | |
| Japanese destroyer Yūkaze | 1921 | Scrapped 1947 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Minekaze-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.