| Japanese destroyer Sazanami (1899) | |
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File:IJN_Sazanami_at_Yokosuka_Meiji_33.jpg Sazanami at Yokosuka, 1900 | |
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| Name: | Sazanami |
| Builder: | Yarrow & Company |
| Laid down: | 1 June 1897 |
| Launched: | 8 July 1899[1] |
| Completed: | 28 August 1899 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 April 1928 |
| Fate: | Sunk as target ship, 1917 |
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| Class & type: | Ikazuchi-class destroyer |
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| Beam: | 6.2 m (20 ft) |
| Draught: | 1.57 m (5.2 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft reciprocating, 4 Yarrow boilers, 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW) |
| Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Complement: | 55 |
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Sazanami (漣, "Ripples") was an Ikazuchi-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. It was one of the smallest and oldest destroyers of the Japanese navy.[2] Only being 220 feet long, which made 30 to 32 knots and capable of 6000 horsepower.[3]
Service history[]
Completed on 28 August 1899, she arrived at Sasebo on March 24, 1900, where she was classified as a destroyer.[4]
During the Russo-Japanese War, Sazanami participated in the battles of Port Arthur and Yalu River.[4] At the Battle of Tsushima, The Russian destroyer Bedovii, which was carrying the wounded Zinovy Rozhestvensky, surrendered to her.[5]
On 1 April 1913, the destroyer was decommissioned.[6] On 23 August 1914 , it was transferred as a miscellaneous service ship, designated as a target ship, and renamed Sazanami Maru. On 29 August 1916, she was sunk off the coast of Tateyama as a target. She was later sold for scrap on 9 January 1917.
References[]
- ↑ United States Naval Institute (1902). United States Naval Institute Proceeding. 28. The Institute. p. 343. https://www.google.ca/books/edition/United_States_Naval_Institute_Proceeding/rr49AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Japanese+destroyer+Sazanami+(1899)&pg=PA343&printsec=frontcover.
- ↑ Denis Warner, and Peggy Warner (2002). The Tide at Sunrise. Frank Cass. p. 15. ISBN 9780714682341. https://www.google.ca/books/edition/The_Tide_at_Sunrise/-AE-xG7Z3gYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Japanese+destroyer+Sazanami+(1899)&pg=PA15&printsec=frontcover.
- ↑ American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1932). Mechnical Engineering. The Society. p. 228. https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Mechanical_Engineering/5jflAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Japanese+destroyer+Sazanami+1899&dq=Japanese+destroyer+Sazanami+1899&printsec=frontcover.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Navy History Preservation Society. History of the Japanese Navy, Vol. 7, 1995. pp. 284-285.
- ↑ Katagiri, Daiji. Rengō Kantai Gunkan Meimei Den, 1993. p. 384.
- ↑ Ministry of the Navy. History of the Navy System, Vol. 8, 1940. p. 74.
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