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 and type	Umikaze-class destroyer
Displacement	1,030 long tons (1,050 t) normal, 1,150 long tons (1,170 t)
Length	94.5 m (310 ft 0 in) (pp), 98.5 m (323 ft 2 in) (o/a)
Beam	8.6 m (28 ft 3 in)
Draught	2.7 m (8 ft 10 in)
Installed power	8 boilers 20,500 shp (15,300 kW)
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	2 × 4.7 in (120 mm) guns 5 × 12 pdr (76.2 mm) guns 3 × single 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes

Yamakaze (山風, "Mountain Wind")^[1] 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.