| Japanese destroyer Hamakaze | |
|---|---|
 Hamakaze underway on June 30, 1941 | |
| Career |  |
| Name: | Hamakaze |
| Ordered: | 1937 |
| Laid down: | 20 November 1939 |
| Launched: | 25 November 1940 |
| Commissioned: | 30 June 1941 |
| Struck: | 10 June 1945 |
| Fate: | Sunk in action, 7 April 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Kagero-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2,490 long tons (2,530 t) |
| Length: | 118.5 m (388 ft 9 in) |
| Beam: | 10.8 m (35 ft 5 in) |
| Draft: | 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in) |
| Propulsion: | Two-shaft geared turbines |
| Speed: | 35 knots (40 mph; 65 km/h) |
| Range: | 8338km (4500nm) |
| Complement: | 240 |
| Armament: |
• 6 × 5 in (130 mm)/50 caliber DP guns • up to 28 × 25 mm AA guns • up to 4 × 13 mm AA guns • 8 × 24 in (610 mm) torpedo tubes • 36 depth charges |
Hamakaze (濱風, "Wind on the Strand") was a Kagero-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
On 7 April 1945, Hamakaze escorted the battleship Yamato from the Inland Sea on her Operation Ten-Go attack on the Allied forces on Okinawa. She was sunk by aircraft of Task Force 58 and sank 150 miles (280 km) southwest of Nagasaki (30°47′N 128°08′E / 30.783°N 128.133°E).
See also[]
References[]
- Jackson, Robert "Fighting Ships of The World." London: Amber Books Ltd, 2004 Pg.337 ISBN 9781840136470
External links[]
Jun 1941: Hamakaze (background) in a still from a Japanese propaganda film Eighty-eight Years of the Sun.
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