Japanese destroyer Yakaze
Service
- as Yakaze19 July 1920 — 19482,193 days of the war
- Name
- Yakaze
- Builder
- Mitsubishi, Nagasaki
- Ordered
- 1917
- Laid down
- 24 January 1918
- Launched
- 10 April 1920
- Commissioned
- 19 July 1920
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1948 (1948)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications — As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,344 long tons (1,366 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,650 long tons (1,676 t)
- Length
- 102.5 m (336.3 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.04 m (29.7 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)
Yakaze was a Minekaze-class destroyer, operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Mitsubishi, Nagasaki laid her keel on 24 January 1918. She entered service on 19 July 1920, having been launched on 10 April 1920.
Twelve ships of the class were built. The class followed the Momi-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Wakatake-class destroyer.
She displaced 1,344 long tons standard and 1,650 long tons at full load. She measured 102.5 m (336 ft) long with a beam of 9.0 m (30 ft). Her designed speed was 39 knots, and she carried a complement of 148.
Her main battery was four 120 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 38,500 shp through two shafts.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1948.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
As built
- 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
- 20 × mines
As target vessel
- Displacement, full load
- 1,531 long tons (1,556 t)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Main gun
- 50 mm (2 in)
- Power
- 11260 shp
- Armament
- 1 × 5 cm gun
- 4 × 25 mm Type 96 AA guns
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Akikaze
- Japanese destroyer Hakaze
- Japanese destroyer Hokaze
- Japanese destroyer Minekaze
- Japanese destroyer Nadakaze
- Japanese destroyer Okikaze
- Japanese destroyer Sawakaze (1919)
- Japanese destroyer Shimakaze (1920)
- Japanese destroyer Shiokaze
- Japanese destroyer Tachikaze (1921)
- Japanese destroyer Yūkaze
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Yakaze 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. 21 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons