Japanese destroyer Hakaze
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| Launched: | ca. 1920 |
| Struck: | 1 March 1943 |
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| Displacement: | 1,215 tons |
| Length: | 336 ft 6 in (102.6 m) |
| Beam: | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Draft: | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 Kanpon boilers 2 Parsons geared turbines 2 shafts at 38,500 SHP (29 MW) |
| Speed: | 39 knots (72 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,000 nmi. at 15 knots (7,400 km at 28 km/h) |
| Complement: | 148 |
| Armament: | 4 × 4.7 in (120 mm)/45 cal S.P. guns 6 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes in three twin mountings 2 × 7.7 mm machine guns |
Hakaze ("Wind from a Wing Stroke", "Following Wind", or "Wind Dancing in Branches")[1] 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 throughout the 1920s and 1930s until gradually replaced by newer types.
In 1942 Sawakaze performed patrol and convoy escort duties in the southwest Pacific. On 23 January 1943, escorting seaplane tender Akitsushima from Kavieng, New Ireland, Hakaze was torpedoed and sunk by USS Guardfish (SS-217) 15 miles southwest of Kavieng (Coordinates: ).
[edit] References
- ^ Japanese Warship Names. Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-23.
- Nevitt, Allyn D. (1997). IJN Hakaze: Tabular Record of Movement. Long Lancers. Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-23.
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