Japanese destroyer Akikaze
Service
- as Akikaze16 September 1921 — 10 January 19451,958 days of the war
- Name
- Akikaze
- Builder
- Mitsubishi shipyards, Nagasaki, Japan
- Ordered
- 1918
- Laid down
- 7 June 1920
- Launched
- 14 December 1920
- Commissioned
- 16 September 1921
- Struck
- 10 January 1945
- Fate
- Torpedoed and sunk on 3 November 1944
By torpedo (1944) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,215 long tons (1,234 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,345 long tons (1,367 t)
- Length
- 102.6 m (336.6 ft) OA
- Beam
- 8.92 m (29.3 ft)
- Draught
- 2.79 m (9.2 ft)
- Range
- 3,618 nmi (6,701 km)
- Complement
- 154
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
Akikaze was a Minekaze-class destroyer built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Mitsubishi shipyards, Nagasaki, Japan laid her keel on 7 June 1920. She entered service on 16 September 1921, having been launched on 14 December 1920.
She was one of twelve ships of her class. The class followed the Momi-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Wakatake-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,215 long tons standard and 1,345 long tons at full load. She measured 102.6 m (337 ft) long with a beam of 8.9 m (29 ft). She carried a complement of 154.
Her main battery was four 120 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 28,700 kW.
She was in commission for 1,958 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 January 1945.
She was sunk on 3 November 1944 by torpedo, at 3°20′S 143°33′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 × Mitsubishi-Parsons geared turbines
- 4 × boilers
- 2 × shafts
- Power
- 28700 kW
- Armament
- 4 × 120 mm/45 cal Type 3 naval guns
- 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 × 7.7 mm machine guns
- 20 × naval mines
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Hakaze
- Japanese destroyer Hokaze
- Japanese destroyer Minekaze
- 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 Akikaze on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Japanese book "History of Japanese Destroyers" (1992) published by Kaigunsha, p.70 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons