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IKAZUCHI destroyers (1899 - 1900)


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Sazanami Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
雷 [Ikazuchi]   1052 Yarrow, Poplar, UK 9/1897 15.11.1898 2/1899 explosion 9.10.1913
電 [Inazuma]   1053 Yarrow, Poplar, UK 11.1897 28.1.1899 4.1899 collision 16.12.1909
曙 [Akebono]   1061 Yarrow, Poplar, UK 2.1898 25.4.1899 7.1899 stricken 10.1921
漣 [Sazanami]   1062 Yarrow, Poplar, UK 6.1897 8.8.1899 8.1899 stricken 4.1913
朧 [Oboro]   1072 Yarrow, Poplar, UK 1.1899 5.10.1899 11.1899 stricken 6.1921
霓 [Niji]   1073 Yarrow, Poplar, UK 1.1899 22.6.1899 7.1899 wrecked 29.7.1900


Technical data


Displacement normal, t305
Displacement full, t

410

Length, m

68.5 oa 67.3 pp

Breadth, m

6.25

Draught, m

1.58

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 4-cyl VTE, 4 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

6000

Max speed, kts

31

Fuel, t

coal 110

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 Armstrong N, 5 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

55



Standard scale images


<i>Akebono</i> 1899
Akebono 1899


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Sazanami <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>
Sazanami Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.


Project history

Built in United Kingdom by Yarrow under the 1896-7 Programme, very similar to RN "30-knotters".

Modernizations

1902 - 1903, all: - 1 x 1 - 57/40; + 1 x 1 - 76/40 Armstrong N

Naval service

Ikazuchi sunk 10.10.1913 by boiler explosion. Inazuma was lost in collision with a schooner S of Hakodate 16.12.1909. Niji wrecked 29.7.1900 in Japanese waters.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.