Imperial Japanese Navy — Destroyer
1944
Japanese destroyer Kashi (1944)
Service
- as Kashi2,193 days of the war
Matsu-class destroyer escort destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- Kashi
- Pennant / hull number
- 1944
- Namesake
- Live oak
- Builder
- Fujinagata Shipyards, Osaka
- Laid down
- 5 May 1944
- Launched
- 13 August 1944
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,262 long tons (1,282 t)
- Length
- 100 m (328.1 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.35 m (30.7 ft)
- Draught
- 3.3 m (10.8 ft)
- Speed
- 27.8 knots (51.5 km/h, 32 mph)
- Range
- 4,680 nmi (8,667 km)
- Complement
- 210
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Kashi was a Matsu-class destroyer escort destroyer built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1944. She was named for Live oak. Fujinagata Shipyards, Osaka laid her keel on 5 May 1944. She was launched on 13 August 1944.
Her class ran to 18 ships. The class followed the Ōtori-class torpedo boat.
Displacement was 1,262 long tons. She measured 100 m (328 ft) long with a beam of 9.3 m (31 ft). Her designed speed was 27.8 knots, and she carried a complement of 210.
Her main battery was one 127 mm (5 in) guns. 19,000 shp drove two shafts.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
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 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 2 × water-tube boilers
- 19000 shp
- Armament
- 1 × twin, 1 × single 127 mm DP guns
- 4 × triple, 13 × single 25 mm AA guns
- 1 × quadruple 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 × rails, 2 × throwers for 36 depth charges
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Hinoki (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Kaede (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Kaya (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Keyaki (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Kiri (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Kuwa (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Maki (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Matsu (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Momi (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Momo (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Nara (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Sakura (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Sugi (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Take (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Tsubaki (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Ume (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Yanagi (1944)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Kashi (1944) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Presumed official IJN or USN photographer — http://musashinonavalarsenal.web.fc2.com/products/take.html — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons