Japanese destroyer Yakaze
Yakaze in July 1922.
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 Empire of Japan
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| Name: | Yakaze |
| Ordered: | 1917 fiscal year |
| Builder: | Mitsubishi, Nagasaki |
| Laid down: | 15 August 1918 |
| Launched: | 20 April 1920 |
| Completed: | 19 July 1920 |
| Reclassified: | As radio-controlled target ship, 20 July 1942 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1948 |
| General characteristics (As built) | |
| Class and type: | Minekaze-class destroyer |
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| Beam: | 9.04 m (29 ft 8 in) |
| Draft: | 2.9 m (9 ft 6 in) |
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| Propulsion: | 2 shafts; 2 × Kampon geared steam turbines |
| Speed: | 39 knots (72 km/h; 45 mph) |
| Range: | 3,600 nmi (6,700 km; 4,100 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Complement: | 148 |
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| General characteristics (As target vessel) | |
| Displacement: | 1,531 long tons (1,556 t) (full load) |
| Installed power: | 11,260 shp (8,400 kW) |
| Speed: | 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) |
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| Operations: | Second Sino-Japanese War |
The Japanese destroyer Yakaze (矢風 Arrow Wind?) was one of 15 Minekaze-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the late 1910s. A decade later, the ship served as a plane guard. During the Pacific War, she was initially as the mother ship for a remotely controlled target ship and then became a radio-controlled target ship herself in 1942. Although she was badly damaged in mid-1945, Yakaze survived the war and was scrapped in 1948.
The Minekaze class was designed with higher speed and better seakeeping than the preceding Kawakaze-class destroyers. The ships had an overall length of 102.5 meters (336 ft 3 in) and were 94.5 meters (310 ft 0 in) between perpendiculars. They had a beam of 9.04 meters (29 ft 8 in), and a mean draft of 2.9 meters (9 ft 6 in). The Minekaze-class ships displaced 1,366 metric tons (1,344 long tons) at standard load and 1,676 metric tons (1,650 long tons) at deep load. They were powered by two Parsons geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by four Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were designed to produce 38,500 shaft horsepower (28,700 kW), which would propel the ships at 39 knots (72 km/h; 45 mph). The ships carried 401 metric tons (395 long tons) of fuel oil which gave them a range of 3,600 nautical miles (6,700 km; 4,100 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph). Their crew consisted of 148 officers and crewmen.
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