Japanese destroyer Shiokaze
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| Career |  |
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| Launched: | ca. 1920 |
| Struck: | 5 October 1945 |
| Fate: | Repatriation ship; later 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 |
Shiokaze ("Wind and Flame", or "Sea Breeze")[1] was a Minekaze-class destroyer, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy immediately 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.
In World War II, Shiokaze performed escort duties from the Andaman Islands of the Indian Ocean to the Aleutian Islands of the North Pacific.
Damaged by air attack in January 1945, Shiokaze spent the final months of the war in Kure undergoing repairs. She was one of the few Japanese destroyers to survive the war.
[edit] References
- ^ Japanese Warship Names. Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
- Nevitt, Allyn D. (1997). IJN Shiokaze: Tabular Record of Movement. Long Lancers. Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
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