Japanese destroyer Hamakaze (1940)
Service
- as Hamakaze30 June 1941 — 10 June 19451,443 days of the war
- Name
- Hamakaze
- Pennant / hull number
- 1940
- Builder
- Uraga Dock Company
- Ordered
- 1937
- Laid down
- 20 November 1939
- Launched
- 25 November 1940
- Commissioned
- 30 June 1941
- Struck
- 10 June 1945
- Fate
- Sunk in action, 7 April 1945 (1945)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 2,490 long tons (2,530 t)
- Length
- 118.5 m (388.8 ft)
- Beam
- 10.8 m (35.4 ft)
- Draught
- 3.8 m (12.5 ft)
- Speed
- 35.5 knots (65.7 km/h, 40.9 mph)
- Range
- 5,000 nmi (9,260 km)
- Complement
- 240
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Hamakaze was a Kagerō-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1940. Her keel was laid at Uraga Dock Company on 20 November 1939. She entered service on 30 June 1941, having been launched on 25 November 1940.
19 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Asashio-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Yūgumo-class destroyer.
Displacement was 2,490 long tons. She measured 118.5 m (389 ft) long with a beam of 10.8 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 35.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 240.
Her main battery was six 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,443 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 June 1945.
She was sunk on 7 April 1945, at 30°47′N 128°08′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
- Two-shaft geared turbines
- Armament
- 6 × 127 mm/50 caliber DP guns
- up to 28 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns
- up to 4 × 13.2 mm AA guns
- 8 × 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 36 depth charges
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Akigumo (1941)
- Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze (1939)
- Japanese destroyer Arashi
- Japanese destroyer Hagikaze
- Japanese destroyer Hatsukaze
- Japanese destroyer Hayashio
- Japanese destroyer Isokaze (1939)
- Japanese destroyer Kagerō (1938)
- Japanese destroyer Kuroshio
- Japanese destroyer Maikaze
- Japanese destroyer Natsushio
- Japanese destroyer Nowaki (1940)
- Japanese destroyer Oyashio
- Japanese destroyer Shiranui (1938)
- Japanese destroyer Tanikaze (1940)
- Japanese destroyer Tokitsukaze (1939)
- Japanese destroyer Urakaze (1940)
- Japanese destroyer Yukikaze (1939)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Hamakaze (1940) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Shizuo Fukui — Kure Maritime Museum, Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album: Destroyers , edited by Kazushige Todaka, p. 100 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons