Japanese destroyer Kamikaze (1922)
Service
- as Kamikaze? — 5 October 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- Kamikaze
- Pennant / hull number
- 1922
- Builder
- Mitsubishi, Nagasaki
- Laid down
- 15 December 1921
- Launched
- 25 September 1922
- Struck
- 5 October 1945
- Fate
- Wrecked, 7 June 1946
Scrapped, 1947 (1946) - Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,400 long tons (1,422 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,719 long tons (1,747 t)
- Length
- 102.5 m (336.3 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.1 m (29.9 ft)
- Draught
- 2.9 m (9.5 ft)
- Speed
- 37.3 knots (69.1 km/h, 42.9 mph)
- Range
- 3,600 nmi (6,667 km)
- Complement
- 148
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
Kamikaze was a Kamikaze-class destroyer (1922) destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1922. Her keel was laid at Mitsubishi, Nagasaki on 15 December 1921. She was launched on 25 September 1922.
Her class ran to nine ships. The class followed the Wakatake-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Mutsuki-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,400 long tons standard and 1,719 long tons at full load. She measured 102.5 m (336 ft) long with a beam of 9.1 m (30 ft). Her designed speed was 37.3 knots, and she carried a complement of 148.
Her main battery was four 120 mm (4.7 in) guns. 38,500 shp drove two shafts.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 5 October 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 7 June 1946.
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 shafts; 2 × Kampon geared steam turbines
- Power
- 38500 shp
- 4 × Kampon water-tube boilers
- Armament
- 4 × single 12 cm Type 3 guns
- 3 × twin 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Kamikaze (1922) 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. 26; also published in Shizuo Fukui, Nihon No Gunkan: Shashinshu , published 1970 , p.173 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons