Japanese destroyer Urakaze (1915)

For other ships with the same name, see Japanese destroyer Urakaze.

Urakaze at Wuhan, China, sometime between 1930 and 1933.[1]
History
Japan
NameDestroyer No. 35
Ordered27 December 1912
BuilderYarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun, Scotland
Laid down1 October 1913
RenamedUrakaze 12 September 1914
Launched16 February 1915
Completed14 September 1915
Stricken1 July 1936
RenamedDecommissioned Destroyer No. 18 1 April 1940
Fate
  • Sunk 18 July 1945
  • Refloated 1948
  • Either scrapped 27 May–15 August 1948 or refloated 9 September 1948 and subsequently scrapped (see text)
General characteristics ′′s
TypeDestroyer
Displacement
  • 907 long tons (922 t) normal,
  • 1,085 long tons (1,102 t) full load
Length
  • 83.9 m (275 ft 3 in) pp,
  • 87.2 m (286 ft 1 in) overall
Beam8.4 m (27 ft 7 in)
Draught2.4 m (7 ft 10 in)
Installed power
Propulsion2 shafts; 2 steam turbines
Speed30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range1,800 nmi (3,300 km; 2,100 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement120
Armament

Urakaze[2] (浦風, "Bay Wind")[3] was the lead ship[4] of the Imperial Japanese Navy′s Urakaze-class destroyers. Completed in 1915, she served during World War I, followed by service on the Yangtze in China during the 1920s and 1930s. She was the only unit of her class to enter Japanese service, the Japanese having sold her only sister ship, Kawakaze, to Italy while Kawakaze was under construction. Urakaze also was the last Japanese destroyer built in a foreign shipyard to enter service in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Stricken in 1936, she thereafter was used for training until she was sunk during World War II in an Allied air raid in 1945. She was refloated and scrapped in 1948.

  1. ^ #艦艇写真集2005駆逐艦 (Ship Photo Collection 2005 Destroyer), p. 11 (in Japanese).
  2. ^ #海軍制度沿革8(1971) p.75『大正三年十二月六日(達一八〇) 艦艇類別等級別表中戦艦ノ部「扶桑」ノ次ニ「、山城、伊勢、日向」ヲ、巡洋戦艦ノ部「金剛」ノ次ニ「、榛名、霧島」ヲ、驅逐艦ノ部「山風」ノ次ニ「、浦風、江風」ヲ、「橘」ノ次ニ「、樺、桂、榊、楓、梅、楠、柏、松、桐、杉」ヲ加フ』("Navy System History 8 (1971) p . 75 December 6, 1913 (Tatsu 180) Table of classification and classification of ships, battleships Fuso, Yamashiro, Ise, Hyuga, battlecruisers Kongo, Haruna, Kirishima, destroyers Yamakaze, Urakaze, Ekaze, Tachibana, Kaba, Katsura, Sakaki, Kaede, Ume, Kusunoki, Kashiwa, Matsu, Kiri, Sugi.") (in Japanese).
  3. ^ #日本海軍艦船名考 p. 202 ("Japanese Navy Ship Name Review") (in Japanese).
  4. ^ #日本駆逐艦史2012 ("Japanese Destroyer History 2012") p. 48 (in Japanese)