Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

Regia Marina — Destroyer class

Urakaze-class destroyer

Urakaze class

The class in numbers

  • 2 Completed
  • 2 Lost

Design and service

Type
Destroyer
Navy
Regia Marina
Built
1913–17
In commission
1917–45
Preceded by
Sakura-class destroyer
Succeeded by
Kaba-class destroyer
Builders
  • Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun, Scotland

Class specifications

Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.

As built
Displacement, standard
907 long tons (922 t)
Displacement, full load
1,085 long tons (1,102 t)
Length
87.2 m (286.1 ft) OA
Speed
30 knots (55.6 km/h, 34.5 mph)
Complement
120
Main gun
119 mm (4.7 in)
Armament
  • (Urakaze)
  • 1 single QF 4.7 inch Gun Mk I – IV
  • 4 single 3-inch 12-pounder guns
  • 2 twin 533 mm torpedo tubes

Roster

Holding 1 of the 2 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
Italian destroyer Audace (1916) 1916 1917 Sunk 1944

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