Japanese destroyer Sawakaze
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| Career |  |
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| Launched: | ca. 1920 |
| Struck: | 15 September 1945 |
| Fate: | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,215 tons |
| Length: | 336 ft 6 in (102.6 m) |
| Beam: | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Draft: | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 Kanpon boilers 2 Parsons geared turbines 2 shafts at 38,500 SHP (29 MW) |
| Speed: | 39 knots (72 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,000 nmi. at 15 knots (7,400 km at 28 km/h) |
| Complement: | 148 |
| Armament: | 4 × 4.7 in (120 mm)/45 cal S.P. guns 6 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes in three twin mountings 2 × 7.7 mm machine guns |
Sawakaze ("Wind from a Swamp", or "Lowlands Wind")[1] was a Minekaze-class destroyer, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. Advanced for their time, these ships served as first-line destroyers throughout the 1920s and 1930s until gradually replaced by newer types.
Obsolescent by World War II, Sawakaze performed patrol and convoy escort duties from Yokosuka from 1942 through 1944.
[edit] References
- ^ Japanese Warship Names. Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-23.
- Nevitt, Allyn D. (1997). IJN Sawakaze: Tabular Record of Movement. Long Lancers. Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-23.
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