Japanese destroyer Namikaze
Namikaze in 1925
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 Empire of Japan
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| Name: | Namikaze |
| Ordered: | 1918 fiscal year |
| Builder: | Maizuru Naval Arsenal |
| Laid down: | 7 November 1921 |
| Launched: | 24 June 1922 |
| Commissioned: | 11 November 1922 |
| Decommissioned: | converted to kaiten carrier 1 February 1945 |
| Struck: | 5 October 1945 |
| Fate: | prize of war to ROC Navy |
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 Taiwan
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| Name: | ROCS Shen Yang |
| Acquired: | 3 October 1947 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1960 |
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| Class and type: | improved Minekaze-class destroyer |
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| Beam: | 8.9 m (29 ft) |
| Draught: | 2.9 m (9.5 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft Mitsubishi-Parsons geared turbines, 4 boilers 38,500 ihp (28,700 kW) |
| Speed: | 39 knots (72 km/h) |
| Range: | 3,600 nautical miles (6,700 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Complement: | 148 |
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Namikaze (波風 Wave Wind?) was the second ship of the Nokaze sub-class, an improvement to the Minekaze-class 1st class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. Advanced for their time, these ships served as first-line destroyers through the 1930s, but were considered obsolescent by the start of the Pacific War. Following the war, the ship was transferred to the Republic of China as a prize of war and renamed Shen Yang.
Construction of the large-sized Minekaze-class destroyers was authorized as part of the Imperial Japanese Navy's 8-4 Fleet Program from fiscal 1917 with nine vessels, and fiscal 1918 with an additional six vessels. However, the final three vessels in the fiscal 1918 were built to a different design and have a different enough silhouette that many authors consider them to be a separate class.Namikaze, built at the Maizuru Naval Arsenal, was the second ship of this sub-class. The destroyer was laid down on 7 November 1921, launched on 24 June 1922 and commissioned on 11 November 1922.
On completion, Namikaze was teamed with sister ships Nokaze, Numakaze, and flagship Kamikaze at the Yokosuka Naval District to form Destroyer Division 1 (第一駆逐隊). In 1938-1939, the division was assigned to patrols of the northern and central China coastlines in support of Japanese combat operations in the Second Sino-Japanese War
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