Japanese destroyer Numakaze
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 Empire of Japan
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| Name: | Numakaze |
| Ordered: | 1918 fiscal year |
| Builder: | Maizuru Naval Arsenal |
| Laid down: | 10 August 1921 |
| Launched: | 25 February 1922 |
| Commissioned: | 24 July 1922 |
| Struck: | 5 February 1944 |
| Fate: | Sunk in action, 18 December 1943 |
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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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Numakaze (沼風 Marsh Wind?) was third and final vessel in the Nokaze sub-class, an improvement to the Minekaze-class 1st class destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy immediately 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.Numakaze, built at the Maizuru Naval Arsenal, was the third ship of this sub-class. The destroyer was laid down on 10 August 1921, launched on 25 February 1922 and commissioned on 27 July 1922.
On completion, Numakaze was teamed with Namikaze, Nokaze and flagship Kamikaze to form Destroyer Division 1 (第一駆逐艦). 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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