Japanese destroyer Hakaze

Hakaze on trials off Nagasaki in fall 1920
History
Empire of Japan
Name:	Hakaze
Ordered:	1918 fiscal year
Builder:	Mitsubishi, Nagasaki
Laid down:	11 November 1918
Launched:	21 June 1920
Completed:	16 September 1920
Struck:	1 March 1943
Fate:	Sunk by USS Guardfish, 23 January 1943
General characteristics
Class and type:	Minekaze-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,366 t (1,344 long tons) (normal) 1,676 t (1,650 long tons) (deep load)
Length:	97.5 m (319 ft 11 in) (pp) 102.5 m (336 ft 3 in) (o/a)
Beam:	9.04 m (29 ft 8 in)
Draft:	2.9 m (9 ft 6 in)
Installed power:	38,500 shp (28,700 kW) 4 × Kampon water-tube boilers
Propulsion:	2 shafts; 2 × Kampon geared steam turbines
Speed:	39 knots (72 km/h; 45 mph)
Range:	3,600 nmi (6,700 km; 4,100 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement:	148
Armament:	4 × single 12 cm (4.7 in) Type 3 guns 3 × twin 53.3 cm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes 20 × mines
Service record
Operations:	Second Sino-Japanese War Pacific War

The Japanese destroyer Hakaze (羽風^?, Winged Wind) was one of 15 Minekaze-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1910s. During the Pacific War, she supported Japanese operations during the Malayan, Dutch East Indies, and Guadalcanal Campaigns. The ship was sunk by an American submarine in early 1943.

The Minekaze class was designed with higher speed and better seakeeping than the preceding Kawakaze-class destroyers. The ships had an overall length of 102.5 meters (336 ft 3 in) and were 94.5 meters (310 ft 0 in) between perpendiculars. They had a beam of 9.04 meters (29 ft 8 in), and a mean draft of 2.9 meters (9 ft 6 in). The Minekaze-class ships displaced 1,366 metric tons (1,344 long tons) at standard load and 1,676 metric tons (1,650 long tons) at deep load. They were powered by two Parsons geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by four Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were designed to produce 38,500 shaft horsepower (28,700 kW), which would propel the ships at 39 knots (72 km/h; 45 mph). The ships carried 401 metric tons (395 long tons) of fuel oil which gave them a range of 3,600 nautical miles (6,700 km; 4,100 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph). Their crew consisted of 148 officers and crewmen.