History | |
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Empire of Japan | |
Name | Sakaki |
Builder | Sasebo Naval Arsenal |
Launched | 15 February 1915 |
Completed | 26 March 1915 |
Decommissioned | 1 April 1932 |
Stricken | November 1931 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1932 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Kaba-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | |
Beam | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
Draught | 7 ft 9 in (2.4 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 3 shafts; 3 triple-expansion steam engines |
Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
Range | 1,600 nmi (3,000 km; 1,800 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 92 |
Armament |
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Sakaki (榊, "Sakaki Tree" Cleyera japonica) was one of 10 Kaba-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I. While operating in the Aegean Sea, Sakaki was torpedoed by an Austro-Hungarian U-boat in 1917.