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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, t	305
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

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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.