Japanese destroyer Tachibana (1912)

Sister ship Sakura at Sasebo, 1918
History
Empire of Japan
Name:	Tachibana
Builder:	Maizuru Navy Dockyard
Laid down:	29 April 1911
Launched:	27 January 1912
Fate:	Scrapped 1933
General characteristics
Class and type:	Sakura class
Displacement:	605 tons normal 830 tons full load
Length:	83.6 m (274 ft)
Beam:	7.3 m (24 ft)
Draught:	2.2 m (7.2 ft)
Propulsion:	reciprocating engines, 9,500 ihp (7,100 kW)
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range:	2,400 nautical miles (4,400 km; 2,800 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement:	92
Armament:	1 × 120 mm/40 cal Type 41 guns 4 × 76 mm/40 cal Type 41 guns 4 × 457 mm torpedo tubes

Tachibana (橘) was a Sakura-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Tachibana and her sister ship Sakura were at first planned to be large ocean-going vessels however due to financial problems they were redesigned to a smaller type. Unlike the preceding Umikaze class, which was powered by Parsons turbines, Tachibana was installed with vertical expansion engines.

The ship, built at the Maizuru Naval Arsenal, was launched in 1911, completed in 1912, and entered service shortly afterward. After 20 years of service, Tachibana was decommissioned in 1932 and scrapped in 1933.