Japanese destroyer Namikaze
improved Minekaze-class destroyer
Service
- as Namikaze11 November 1922 — 1 February 19451,980 days of the war
- as ROCS Shen Yang3 October 1947 — 1960
- Name
- Namikaze
- Builder
- Maizuru Naval Arsenal
- Ordered
- 1918
- Laid down
- 7 November 1921
- Launched
- 24 June 1922
- Commissioned
- 11 November 1922
- Decommissioned
- 1 February 1945
- Struck
- 5 October 1945
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1960 (1960)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,215 long tons (1,234 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,650 long tons (1,676 t)
- Length
- 102.6 m (336.6 ft) OA
- Beam
- 8.9 m (29.2 ft)
- Draught
- 2.9 m (9.5 ft)
- Speed
- 39 knots (72.2 km/h, 44.9 mph)
- Range
- 3,600 nmi (6,667 km)
- Complement
- 148
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
Namikaze was a improved Minekaze-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Maizuru Naval Arsenal laid her keel on 7 November 1921. She entered service on 11 November 1922, having been launched on 24 June 1922.
Displacement was 1,215 long tons standard and 1,650 long tons at full load. She measured 102.6 m (337 ft) long with a beam of 8.9 m (29 ft). Her designed speed was 39 knots, and she carried a complement of 148. Her main battery was of 120 mm (4.7 in) calibre.
She served with the Imperial Japanese Navy as Namikaze until 1 February 1945. She then passed to the Chinese Navy, serving as ROCS Shen Yang from 3 October 1947. She was in commission for 1,980 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 1 February 1945. She was struck from the register on 5 October 1945.
She was broken up for scrap in 1960.
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-shaft Mitsubishi-Parsons geared turbines, 4 boilers 38500 ihp
- Armament
- 4 × Type 3 120 mm 45 caliber naval gun
- 6 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (plus 2 reloads)
- 2 × 7.7 mm machine guns
- 20 Type 1 naval mines
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Namikaze on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Japanese book "History of Japanese Destroyers" (1992) published by Kaigunsha, p.73 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons