Japanese destroyer Yamakaze (1936)

Yamakaze underway
History
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 and type	Shiratsuyu-class destroyer
Displacement	1,685 long tons (1,712 t)
Length	103.5 m (340 ft) pp 107.5 m (352 ft 8 in) waterline
Beam	9.9 m (32 ft 6 in)
Draft	3.5 m (11 ft 6 in)
Propulsion	2 shaft Kampon geared turbines 3 boilers, 42,000 hp (31,000 kW)
Speed	34 knots (39 mph; 63 km/h)
Range	4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h)
Complement	226
Armament	5 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 naval guns (2×2, 1×1) 2 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) AA guns 8 × 24 in (610 mm) torpedo tubes 16 × Depth charges
Service record
Operations:	Battle of Tarakan (1942) Battle of the Java Sea (1942) Battle of Midway (1942)

Yamakaze (山風, ”Mountain Wind”)^[1] 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).^[2]