Japanese destroyer Yakaze

Yakaze in July 1922.
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Yakaze
Ordered	1917 fiscal year
Builder	Mitsubishi, Nagasaki
Laid down	24 January 1918
Launched	10 April 1920
Completed	19 July 1920
Commissioned	19 July 1920
Reclassified	As radio-controlled target ship, 20 July 1942
Fate	Scrapped, 1948
General characteristics (As built)
Class and type	Minekaze-class destroyer
Displacement	1,366 t (1,344 long tons) (normal) 1,676 t (1,650 long tons) (deep load)
Length	97.5 m (319 ft 11 in) (pp) 102.5 m (336 ft 3 in) (o/a)
Beam	9.04 m (29 ft 8 in)
Draft	2.9 m (9 ft 6 in)
Installed power	38,500 shp (28,700 kW) 4 × Kampon water-tube boilers
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 × Kampon geared steam turbines
Speed	39 knots (72 km/h; 45 mph)
Range	3,600 nmi (6,700 km; 4,100 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement	148
Armament	4 × single 12 cm (4.7 in) Type 3 guns 3 × twin 53.3 cm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes 20 × mines
General characteristics (As target vessel)
Displacement	1,531 long tons (1,556 t) (full load)
Installed power	11,260 shp (8,400 kW)
Speed	24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph)
Armament	1 × 5 cm (2.0 in) gun 4 × 25 mm (0.98 in) Type 96 AA guns
Service record
Operations:	Second Sino-Japanese War

The Japanese destroyer Yakaze (矢風, Arrow Wind) was one of 15 Minekaze-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the late 1910s. A decade later, the ship served as a plane guard. During the Pacific War, she was initially as the mother ship for a remotely controlled target ship and then became a radio-controlled target ship herself in 1942. Although she was badly damaged in mid-1945, Yakaze survived the war and was scrapped in 1948.