Japanese destroyer Numakaze
improved Minekaze-class destroyer
Service
- as Numakaze24 July 1922 — 5 February 19441,618 days of the war
- Name
- Numakaze
- Builder
- Maizuru Naval Arsenal
- Ordered
- 1918
- Laid down
- 10 August 1921
- Launched
- 25 February 1922
- Commissioned
- 24 July 1922
- Struck
- 5 February 1944
- Fate
- Torpedoed and sunk on 18 December 1943
By torpedo (1943) - Status
- Wreck
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)
Numakaze was a improved Minekaze-class destroyer, operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Maizuru Naval Arsenal on 10 August 1921. Launched on 25 February 1922, she entered service on 24 July 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 was in commission for 1,618 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 5 February 1944.
She was sunk on 18 December 1943 by torpedo, at 26°29′N 128°26′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-shaft Mitsubishi-Parsons geared turbines, 4 boilers 38500 ihp
- Armament
- 4 × Type 3 120 mm 45 caliber naval gun
- 6 × 21 in torpedo tubes (plus 2 reloads)
- 2 × 7.7 mm machine guns
- 20 Type 1 naval mines
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Numakaze on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: The original uploader was Tnt1984 at Vietnamese Wikipedia . — Transferred from vi.wikipedia to Commons — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons