Japanese destroyer Wakaba (1905)

	Sister ship Ayanami
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Wakaba
Builder	Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
Launched	25 November 1905
Completed	28 February 1906
Decommissioned	1 April 1928
Reclassified	As a minesweeper, 1 December 1924
Fate	Scrapped, 1929
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Kamikaze-class destroyer
Displacement	381 long tons (387 t); 450 long tons (460 t) (full load);
Length	227 ft (69.2 m) (pp); 234 ft (71 m) (o/a);
Beam	21 ft 7 in (6.6 m)
Draught	6 ft (1.8 m)
Installed power	4 boilers; 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Range	1,200 nmi (2,200 km; 1,400 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	70
Armament	2 × single 3 in (76 mm) 12 cwt guns; 4 × single 3 in (76 mm) 8 cwt guns; 2 × single 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes;

Wakaba (若葉) ("Young leaves") was one of 32 Kamikaze-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the first decade of the 20th century.

History
Sister ship Ayanami
Empire of Japan
Name	Wakaba
Builder	Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
Launched	25 November 1905
Completed	28 February 1906
Decommissioned	1 April 1928
Reclassified	As a minesweeper, 1 December 1924
Fate	Scrapped, 1929
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Kamikaze-class destroyer
Displacement	381 long tons (387 t) 450 long tons (460 t) (full load)
Length	227 ft (69.2 m) (pp) 234 ft (71 m) (o/a)
Beam	21 ft 7 in (6.6 m)
Draught	6 ft (1.8 m)
Installed power	4 boilers; 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW)
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Range	1,200 nmi (2,200 km; 1,400 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	70
Armament	2 × single 3 in (76 mm) 12 cwt guns 4 × single 3 in (76 mm) 8 cwt guns 2 × single 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes