Japanese destroyer Nokaze
Nokaze in February 1922
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 Empire of Japan
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| Name: | Nokaze |
| Ordered: | 1918 fiscal year |
| Builder: | Maizuru Naval Arsenal |
| Laid down: | 16 April 1921 |
| Launched: | 1 October 1921 |
| Commissioned: | 31 March 1922 |
| Struck: | 10 April 1945 |
| Fate: | Sunk in action, 20 February 1945 |
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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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Nokaze (野風 "Field Wind"?) was the lead 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.
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.Nokaze, built at the Maizuru Naval Arsenal was laid down on 16 April 1921, launched on 1 October 1921 and commissioned on 31 March 1922.
On completion, Nokaze was teamed with sister ships Namikaze, Numakaze, and flagship Kamikaze at Yokosuka Naval District to form Destroyer Division 1. In 1938-1939, this 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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