![]() Sakura at Sasebo, 1918
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Class overview | |
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Name | Sakura class |
Builders | Maizuru Naval Arsenal |
Operators | ![]() |
Preceded by | Umikaze class |
Succeeded by | Urakaze class |
In commission | 21 May 1912 - 1 April 1932 |
Completed | 2 |
Retired | 2 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Destroyer |
Displacement | 530 tons normal, 830 tons full load |
Length |
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Beam | 7.3 m (24 ft) |
Draught | 2.2 m (7.2 ft) |
Propulsion | coal-fired boilers, triple-expansion reciprocating engines, 9,500 ihp (7,100 kW) |
Speed | 30 kn (56 km/h) |
Range | 2,400 nmi (4,400 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h) |
Complement | 94 |
Armament |
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The Sakura-class destroyers (櫻型駆逐艦, Sakuragata kuchikukan) was a class of two destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy.[1]