Enoki-class destroyer
Kuwa during speed trials off Hiroshima, 1918. Note the vast amount of smoke from coal-fired boilers
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Enoki class |
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 Imperial Japanese Navy
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| Preceded by: | Momo class |
| Succeeded by: | Kawakaze class |
| In commission: | 1918–1936 |
| Completed: | 6 |
| Retired: | 6 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Destroyer |
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| Beam: | 7.7 m (25 ft) |
| Draught: | 2.3 m (7.5 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft steam turbine, 4 boilers 16,700 ihp (12,500 kW) |
| Speed: | 31.5 knots (58.3 km/h) |
| Range: | 2,400 nmi (4,400 km; 2,800 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 110 |
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The Enoki-class destroyers (榎型駆逐艦 Enokigata kuchikukan?) were a class of six destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. As with the previous Momo class, all were named after trees. As Enoki and Nara were both commissioned on the same day, the class is also referred to as the Nara-class destroyers (楢型駆逐艦 Naragata kuchikukan?).
With most of Japan’s destroyers deployed to the Mediterranean Sea as part of Japan’s contribution to the war effort against Imperial Germany under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, the Imperial Japanese Navy approached the Diet of Japan for an emergency procurement budget, similar to that awarded during the Russo-Japanese War for the production of the Kamikaze-class destroyers. The funding was awarded from the fiscal 1917 budget, but mindful of the fact that the Kamikaze-class destroyers had not actually been completed until after the end of the previous war, the government stipulated that the emergency budget be used up within a six-month period.
The order for six vessels was split between the four major naval shipyards: one to Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, two to Kure Naval Arsenal, two to Sasebo Naval Arsenal and one to Maizuru Naval Arsenal.
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