Japanese destroyer Shiokaze
Shiokaze with battlecruiser Kongō in 1924
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 Empire of Japan
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| Name: | Shiokaze |
| Ordered: | 1918 fiscal year |
| Builder: | Maizuru Naval Arsenal |
| Laid down: | 15 May 1920 |
| Launched: | 22 October 1920 |
| Commissioned: | 29 July 1921 |
| Struck: | 5 October 1945 |
| Fate: | scuttled |
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| Class and type: | Minekaze-class destroyer |
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| Beam: | 8.92 m (29.3 ft) |
| Draught: | 2.79 m (9.2 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: | 154 |
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Shiokaze (汐風 Tide Wind?) was a Minekaze-class destroyer, 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 1917-1920, as an accompaniment to the medium-sized Momi class with which they shared many common design characteristics. Equipped with powerful engines, these vessels were capable of high speeds and were intended as escorts for the projected Amagi-class battlecruisers, which were ultimately never built.Shiokaze, built at the Maizuru Naval Arsenal, was the eighth ship of this class. The ship was laid down on 15 May 1920, launched on 22 October 1920 and commissioned on 29 July 1921.
On completion, Shiokaze was assigned to the Yokosuka Naval District. In 1938-1939, she was assigned to patrols of the southern China coastline in support of Japanese combat operations in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
In World War II, Shiokaze performed patrol and convoy escort duties. At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Shiokaze (assigned to Destroyer Division 3 of the IJN 1st Air Fleet) was based at Palau, as part of the escort of the aircraft carrier Ryūjō, for "Operation M", (the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.
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