Japanese destroyer Tanikaze (1940)
Service
- as Tanikaze25 April 1941 — 10 August 19441,203 days of the war
- Name
- Tanikaze
- Pennant / hull number
- 1940
- Builder
- Fujinagata Shipyards, Osaka
- Launched
- 1 November 1940
- Commissioned
- 25 April 1941
- Struck
- 10 August 1944
- Fate
- Torpedoed and sunk 9 June 1944
By torpedo (1944) - 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 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Complement
- 240
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Tanikaze was a Kagerō-class destroyer, operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1940. She was built by Fujinagata Shipyards, Osaka. She entered service on 25 April 1941, having been launched on 1 November 1940.
19 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Asashio-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Yūgumo-class destroyer.
She displaced 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 knots, and she carried a complement of 240.
Her main battery was six 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,203 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 August 1944.
She was sunk on 9 June 1944 by torpedo, at 5°42′N 120°41′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
- 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 Hamakaze (1940)
- 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 Tokitsukaze (1939)
- Japanese destroyer Urakaze (1940)
- Japanese destroyer Yukikaze (1939)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Tanikaze (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. 102 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons