Sakura-class destroyer
Sakura at Sasebo, 1918
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Sakura class |
| Builders: | Maizuru Naval Arsensal |
| Operators: |
 Imperial Japanese Navy
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| Preceded by: | Umikaze class |
| Succeeded by: | Urakaze class |
| In commission: | 21 May 1912 - 1 April 1932 |
| Completed: | 2 |
| Retired: | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Displacement: | 530 tons normal, 830 tons full load |
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| Beam: | 7.3 m (24 ft) |
| Draught: | 2.2 m (7.2 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 3-shaft Parsons steam turbine, 8 boilers, 20,500 ihp (15,300 kW) |
| Speed: | 30 kn (56 km/h) |
| Range: | 2,400 nmi (4,400 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 94 |
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The Sakura-class destroyers (櫻型駆逐艦 Sakuragata kuchikukan) was a class of two destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Although unable to obtain funding in fiscal year 1907 for additional Umikaze-class destroyers, which were expensive due to their large size and imported turbine engines, the Imperial Japanese Navy was also unwilling to purchase three additional Kamikaze-class destroyers as recommended by the government. In a compromise, the Navy agreed to purchase two medium size ships instead.
Both were designed and built at the Maizuru Naval Arsenal in Japan.
The Sakura-class ships were half the displacement of the previous Umikaze class but with the same basic hull design. Externally, the design went from four to three smokestacks, which was a first for the Japanese Navy; however, internally the troublesome heavy fuel oil-fired Parsons steam turbine engines of the Umikaze class were replaced by standard coal-fired triple expansion steam engines, which gave better reliability and fuel consumption. The lower rated power of 9,500 shaft horsepower (7,100 kW) gave the vessels a maximum speed of 30 knots (56 km/h), however, better fuel consumption equated to longer range, which was what the Imperial Japanese Navy needed.
Armament was similar to that of the Umikaze class, with one QF 4.7 inch Gun Mk I - IV, mounted on the deck forward of the bridge, and four 3-inch (76 mm) QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval guns, mounted one on either side and two towards the stern of the ship, with two 450-mm torpedoes launchers.
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