Japanese destroyer Tanikaze

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Fate: Sunk in action, 9 June 1944
Struck: 10 August 1944
General Characteristics
Displacement: 2,490 tons
Length: 388 ft 9 in (118.5 m)
Beam: 35 ft 5 in (10.8 m)
Draft: 12 ft 4 in (3.8 m)
Speed: 35 knots (65 km/h)
Complement: 240
Armament: 6 × 5 in (127 mm) / 50 caliber DP guns,
up to 28 × 25 mm AA guns,
up to 4 × 13 mm AA guns,
8 × 24 in torpedo tubes,
36 depth charges

Tanikaze (谷風?) was a Kagero-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name means "Wind from the Mountain to the Valley".

On 9 June 1944, Tanikaze was torpedoed and sunk by USS Harder (SS-257) in Sibutu Passage near Tawitawi, 90 miles (170 km) southwest of Basilan (05°42′N 120°41′E).


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Kagero-class destroyer

Kagero | Kuroshio | Oyashio | Hatsukaze | Natsushio | Yukikaze | Hayashio | Maikaze | Isokaze | Shiranuhi | Amatsukaze | Tokitsukaze | Urakaze | Hamakaze | Nowaki | Arashi | Hagikaze | Tanikaze | Akigumo

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