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Japanese destroyer Uranami (1907)

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Japanese destroyer Uranami (1907)
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Sister ship Ayanami
Career (Empire of Japan)
Name: Uranami
Builder: Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down: 1 May 1907
Launched: 8 December 1908
Completed: 20 September 1907
Decommissioned: 1 June 1930
Out of service: 25 October 1935
Renamed: W-8, 1 August 1928
Reclassified:
Fate: Scrapped after 25 October 1935
General characteristics (as built)
Class & type: Kamikaze-class destroyer
Displacement:
  • 381 long tons (387 t)
  • 450 long tons (460 t) (full load)
Length:
  • 227 ft (69.2 m) (pp)
  • 234 ft (71 m) (o/a)
    • Beam: 21 ft 7 in (6.6 m)
    Draught: 6 ft (1.8 m)
    Installed power: 4 boilers; 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW)
    Propulsion: 2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines
    Speed: 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
    Range: 1,200 nmi (2,200 km; 1,400 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
    Complement: 70
    Armament:

    Uranami (浦波?) ("Wave in an inlet") was one of 32 Kamikaze-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the first decade of the 20th century.

    Design and description[]

    The Kamikaze-class destroyers were improved versions of the preceding Harusame class.[1] They displaced 381 long tons (387 t) at normal load and 450 long tons (460 t) at deep load. The ships had a length between perpendiculars of 227 feet (69.2 m) and an overall length of 234 feet (71.3 m), a beam of 21 feet 7 inches (6.6 m) and a draught of 6 feet (1.8 m). The Kamikazes were powered by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft using steam produced by four Kampon water-tube boilers. The engines produced a total of 6,000 indicated horsepower (4,500 kW) that gave the ships a maximum speed of 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph). They carried a maximum of 100 long tons (102 t) of coal[2] which gave them a range of 1,500 nautical miles (2,800 km; 1,700 mi) at a speed of 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph). Their crew consisted of 70 officers and ratings.[3]

    The main armament of the Kamikaze-class ships consisted of two 40-calibre quick-firing (QF) three-inch (76 mm) 12 cwt guns[Note 1] on single mounts; the forward gun was located on superstructure, but the aft gun was at the stern. Four 28-calibre QF three-inch 8 cwt guns on single mounts were positioned abreast the superstructure, two in each broadside. The ships were also armed with two single rotating mounts[1][3] for 450-millimetre (17.7 in)[4] torpedoes between the superstructure and the stern gun. When Uranami was converted into a minesweeper in 1924, she was rearmed with a pair of 12-centimetre (4.7 in) 3rd Year Type guns taken from older ships on single mounts and the three-inch 8 cwt guns were removed.[1]

    Construction and career[]

    Uranami was laid down on May 1st, 1907 at Maizuru Naval Arsenal, launched on December 8th, 1907 and completed on October 2nd, 1908.[1] The ship participated in World War I and the Siberian Expedition. She was converted into a minesweeper on 1 December 1924 and was renamed W-8 on 1 August 1928. The ship was decommissioned on 1 June 1930, but she continued in service as a tugboat and a dispatch boat until 25 October 1935 and was subsequently scrapped.[5]

    Notes[]

    1. ↑ "Cwt" is the abbreviation for hundredweight, 12 cwt referring to the weight of the gun.

    Citations[]

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Friedman 1985, p. 241
    2. ↑ Watts & Gordon, p. 243
    3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 133
    4. ↑ Friedman 2011, p. 349
    5. ↑ Todaka, et al., p. 219

    Books[]

    • Friedman, Norman (1985). "Japan". In Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships: 1906–1921. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-907-3. 
    • Friedman, Norman (2011). Naval Weapons of World War One. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-100-7. 
    • Jentschura, Hansgeorg; Jung, Dieter; Mickel, Peter (1977). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute. ISBN 0-87021-893-X. 
    • Todaka, Kazushige; Fukui, Shizuo; Eldridge, Robert D.; Leonard, Graham B. (2020). Destroyers: Selected Photos from the Archives of the Kure Maritime Museum; the Best from the Collection of Shizuo Fukui's Photos of Japanese Warships. Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-630-8. 
    • Watts, Anthony J.; Gordon, Brian G. (1971). The Imperial Japanese Navy. London: Macdonald. ISBN 0-35603-045-8. 
  • Preceded by: Harusame class
  • Followed by: Umikaze class


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