Japanese destroyer Namikaze
Namikaze in 1925 | |
| History | |
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| Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Namikaze |
| Ordered | 1918 fiscal year |
| Builder | Maizuru Naval Arsenal |
| Laid down | 7 November 1921 |
| Launched | 24 June 1922 |
| Commissioned | 11 November 1922 |
| Decommissioned | converted to kaiten carrier 1 February 1945 |
| Stricken | 5 October 1945 |
| Fate | prize of war to ROC Navy |
| Republic of China | |
| Name | ROCS Shen Yang |
| Acquired | 3 October 1947 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1960 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | improved Minekaze-class destroyer |
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| Beam | 8.9 m (29 ft) |
| Draught | 2.9 m (9.5 ft) |
| Propulsion | 2-shaft Mitsubishi-Parsons geared turbines, 4 boilers 38,500 ihp (28,700 kW) |
| Speed | 39 knots (72 km/h) |
| Range | 3,600 nautical miles (6,700 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h) |
| Complement | 148 |
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Namikaze (波風, Wave Wind) was the second ship of the Nokaze sub-class, an improvement to the Minekaze-class 1st class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. Advanced for their time, these ships served as first-line destroyers through the 1930s, but were considered obsolescent by the start of the Pacific War. Following the war, the ship was transferred to the Republic of China as a prize of war and renamed Shen Yang.