Japanese destroyer Yamakaze (1911)
Yamakaze at Ominato, 1926 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Japan | |
| Name | Yamakaze |
| Builder | Mitsubishi shipyards, Nagasaki, Japan |
| Laid down | June 1, 1910 |
| Launched | January 21, 1911 |
| Commissioned | October 21, 1911 |
| Decommissioned | April 1, 1936 |
| Renamed | Minesweeper No. 8, 1930 |
| Reclassified | As minesweeper, 1930 |
| Stricken | 1936 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 1936 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Umikaze-class destroyer |
| Displacement |
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| Length | |
| Beam | 8.6 m (28 ft 3 in) |
| Draught | 2.7 m (8 ft 10 in) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | 3 shafts; 3 steam turbine sets |
| Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
| Range | 850 nmi (1,570 km; 980 mi) at 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement | 140 |
| Armament |
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Yamakaze (山風, "Mountain Wind") was an Umikaze-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The second and last ship of this class to be built, she was completed in 1911. After mostly serving as a coastal patrol boat during World War I, she was converted to a minesweeper on June 1, 1930, along with her sister ship, Umikaze. On April 1, 1936 she was scrapped after 25 years of service.