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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) |
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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”)[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]