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Umikaze  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
白露 [Shiratsuyu]			Sasebo K K	11/1933	5.4.1935	8/1936	collision 15.6.1944
時雨 [Shigure]			Uraga, Tokyo	12/1933	18.5.1935	9/1936	sunk 24.1.1945
村雨 [Murasame]			Fujinagata, Osaka	2/1934	20.6.1935	1/1937	sunk 6.3.1943
夕立 [Yudachi]			Sasebo K K	10/1934	21.6.1936	1/1937	sunk 13.11.1942
五月雨 [Samidare]			Uraga, Tokyo	12/1934	6.7.1935	7/1937	sunk 25.8.1944
春雨 [Harusame]			Uraga, Tokyo	2/1935	21.9.1935	8/1937	sunk 8.6.1944
山風 [Yamakaze]			Uraga, Tokyo	5/1935	21.2.1936	7/1937	sunk 25.6.1942
江風 [Kawakaze]			Fujinagata, Osaka	4/1935	1.11.1936	4/1937	sunk 6.8.1943
海風 [Umikaze]			Maizuru K K	5/1935	27.11.1936	5/1937	sunk 1.2.1944
涼風 [Suzukaze]			Uraga, Tokyo	7/1935	11.3.1937	8/1937	sunk 26.1.1944

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1685
Displacement full, t	2090
Length, m	103.5 pp 107.5 wl 110.0 oa
Breadth, m	9.90
Draught, m	3.50
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Kampon geared steam turbines, 3 Kampon boilers
Power, h. p.	42000
Max speed, kts	34
Fuel, t	oil 500
Endurance, nm(kts)	6000(15)
Armament	2 x 2 - 127/50 3-shiki, 1 x 1 - 127/50 3-shiki, 2 x 1 - 13.2/76, 2 x 4 - 610 TT (16), 2 DCT (16)
Electronic equipment	93-shiki sonar
Complement	180

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Project history

Were built under 1st and 2nd Supplementary Programmes of 1931 and 1934. First six were ordered still as Hatsuharu class, but during building the design, after incident with Tomozuru, have significantly altered. Last four (Kawakaze, Umikaze, Yamakaze and Suzukaze) were ordered already under the changed design within limits of the 1934 Programme. Destroyers had a lot of similar to Hatsuharu class, but differed hardly in smaller breadth and increased draught. Superstructures have been considerably decreased in the sizes. The artillery repeated accepted on destroyers of the previous class after rebuilding, and torpedo armament have been changed: instead of three triple TT there were two quadruple. Spare torpedoes for fore TT took places in pairs, on each side from the second funnel, unlike an asymmetric arrangement on Hatsuharu.

Modernizations

1939 - 1940, all: - 2 x 1 - 13.2/76; + 2 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki

1942 - 1943, all: - 1 x 1 - 127/50, 4 spare torpedoes (totally 12); + 2 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki, 4 x 1 - 13.2/76, 2 DCT (36 totally)

1944, all survived: - 1 x 2 - 25/60; + 1 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki

late 1944, Shigure: + 8 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki

1944-1945, all survived: + 2-shiki 2-go, 3-shiki 1-go radars, E-27 ECM suite

Naval service

Yamakaze 25.6.1942 was sunk W off Yokosuka by US submarine Nautilus. Yudachi was hard damaged in battle at Sawo by a torpedo from US destroyer, in the morning 13.11.1942 she was finished by gunfire of US cruiser Portland. Murasame 6.3.1943 was sunk at Kolombangara by gunfire of US cruisers Cleveland, Denver, Montpelier and destroyer Waller. Kawakaze 6.8.1943 was sunk at Kolombangara by US destroyers Dunlap, Craven and Maury. Suzukaze 4.2.1942 was hard damaged by a torpedo from US submarine Sculpin, 26.1.1944 she was sunk off Carolina Islands by US submarine Skipjack. Umikaze 1.2.1944 was sunk at Truk by US submarine Guardfish. Harusame 8.6.1944 was sunk at coast of New Guinea by US Army aircraft. Shiratsuyu 29.11.1942 was hard damaged by US Army aircraft E off Boona Island, 15.6.1944 she was sunk SE off Surigao Strait as a result of collision with tanker Seijo Maru. Samidare 18.8.1944 was hard damaged, has lost a course; 25.8.1944 during salvage operations she was sunk at Palau by US submarine Batfish. Shigure 24.1.1945 was sunk at coast of Malaya by US submarine Blackfin.