Japanese destroyer Yamakaze (1936)
Yamakaze underway | |
| History | |
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| Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Yamakaze |
| Ordered | 1934 FY |
| Builder | Uraga Dock Company |
| Laid down | 25 May 1935 |
| Launched | 21 February 1936 |
| Commissioned | 30 June 1937 |
| Stricken | 20 August 1942 |
| Fate | Sunk by USS Nautilus, 25 June 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Shiratsuyu-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,685 long tons (1,712 t) |
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| Beam | 9.9 m (32 ft 6 in) |
| Draft | 3.5 m (11 ft 6 in) |
| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 34 knots (39 mph; 63 km/h) |
| Range | 4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h) |
| Complement | 226 |
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Yamakaze (山風, ”Mountain Wind”) was the eighth of ten Shiratsuyu-class destroyers, and the second to be built for the Imperial Japanese Navy under the Circle Two Program (Maru Ni Keikaku).