Japanese destroyer Sawakaze (1919)
Japanese destroyer Sawakaze in 1945 | |
| History | |
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| Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Sawakaze |
| Ordered | 1917 fiscal year |
| Builder | Mitsubishi, Nagasaki |
| Laid down | 7 January 1918 |
| Launched | 7 January 1919 |
| Completed | 6 March 1920 |
| Stricken | 15 September 1945 |
| Fate | Scuttled as breakwater, 1948 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Minekaze-class destroyer |
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| Length | |
| Beam | 9.04 m (29 ft 8 in) |
| Draft | 2.9 m (9 ft 6 in) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 × Kampon geared steam turbines |
| Speed | 39 knots (72 km/h; 45 mph) |
| Range | 3,600 nmi (6,700 km; 4,100 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Complement | 148 |
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The Japanese destroyer Sawakaze (澤風, Marsh Wind) was one of 15 Minekaze-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the late 1910s. The ship served as a plane guard and played a minor role in the Second Sino-Japanese War during the 1930s. She spent most of the Pacific War on escort duties in Japanese waters before she became an anti-submarine training ship in 1944. Sawakaze survived the war and was broken up for scrap in 1948.