Japanese destroyer Numakaze

	Numakaze
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Numakaze
Ordered	1918 fiscal year
Builder	Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down	10 August 1921
Launched	25 February 1922
Commissioned	24 July 1922
Stricken	5 February 1944
Fate	Torpedoed and sunk on 18 December 1943
General characteristics
Class & type	improved Minekaze-class destroyer
Displacement	1,215 long tons (1,234 t) normal,; 1,650 long tons (1,680 t) full load;
Length	97.5 m (320 ft) pp,; 102.6 m (337 ft) overall;
Beam	8.9 m (29 ft)
Draught	2.9 m (9.5 ft)
Propulsion	2-shaft Mitsubishi-Parsons geared turbines, 4 boilers 38,500 ihp (28,700 kW)
Speed	39 knots (72 km/h)
Range	3,600 nautical miles (6,700 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement	148
Armament	4 × Type 3 120 mm 45 caliber naval gun; 6 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (plus 2 reloads); 2 × 7.7 mm machine guns; 16 Type 1 naval mines;
Service record
Operations:	Second Sino-Japanese War; Pacific War;

Numakaze (沼風, Marsh Wind) was third and final vessel in the Nokaze sub-class, an improvement to the Minekaze-class 1st class destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy immediately following World War I. Advanced for their time, these ships served as first-line destroyers through the 1930s, but were considered obsolescent by the start of the Pacific War.