Japanese destroyer Shiokaze

Shiokaze with the battlecruiser Kongō in 1924.
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Shiokaze
Ordered	1918 fiscal year
Builder	Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down	15 May 1920
Launched	22 October 1920
Commissioned	29 July 1921
Stricken	5 October 1945
Fate	Scuttled
General characteristics
Class and type	Minekaze-class destroyer
Displacement	1,215 long tons (1,234 t) normal, 1,345 long tons (1,367 t) full load
Length	97.5 m (320 ft) pp, 102.6 m (337 ft) overall
Beam	8.92 m (29.3 ft)
Draught	2.79 m (9.2 ft)
Propulsion	2-shaft Mitsubishi- Parsons geared turbines, 4 boilers 38,500 ihp (28,700 kW)
Speed	39 knots (72 km/h)
Range	3,600 nautical miles (6,700 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement	154
Armament	4 × Type 3 120 mm 45 caliber naval gun 6 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 2 × 7.7 mm machine guns 16 × naval mines
Service record
Operations:	Second Sino-Japanese War Pacific War

Shiokaze (汐風, Tide Wind)^[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 through the 1930s, but were considered obsolescent by the start of the Pacific War.

History

Construction of the large-sized Minekaze-class destroyers was authorized as part of the Imperial Japanese Navy's

In 1938 and 1939, Shiokaze conducted patrols of the southern coastline of China in support of Japanese combat operations in the Second Sino-Japanese War.

World War II history

In

After repairs in early 1943, Shiokaze began escorting convoys between Japan and Manila, Singapore and Palau, continuing in this duty to the end of January 1945. She suffered minor damage on 31 January 1945 when attacked south of Taiwan attempting to evacuate aircraft crews from Aparri on Luzon, returning to Kure Naval Arsenal for repairs. However, repairs were never completed, and Shiokaze was still docked at Kure at the time of the surrender of Japan.

After the war, Shiokaze was used as a reparation vessel, evacuating demobilized Japanese troops from the Asian continent back to Japan. On 5 October 1945 Shiokaze was removed from

References

Notes

Books

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  ISBN 0-87021-893-X
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• Nelson, Andrew N. (1967). Japanese-English Character Dictionary. Tuttle.
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• Watts, Anthony J (1967). Japanese Warships of World War II. Doubleday.
  ISBN 978-0-3850-9189-3
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• Whitley, M J (2000). Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Arms and Armour Press.
  ISBN 1-85409-521-8
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