Japanese destroyer Urakaze (1915)
| History | |
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| Japan | |
| Name | Destroyer No. 35 |
| Ordered | 27 December 1912 |
| Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun, Scotland |
| Laid down | 1 October 1913 |
| Renamed | Urakaze 12 September 1914 |
| Launched | 16 February 1915 |
| Completed | 14 September 1915 |
| Stricken | 1 July 1936 |
| Renamed | Decommissioned Destroyer No. 18 1 April 1940 |
| Fate |
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| General characteristics ′′s | |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Displacement |
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| Length |
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| Beam | 8.4 m (27 ft 7 in) |
| Draught | 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in) |
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| Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 steam turbines |
| Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
| Range | 1,800 nmi (3,300 km; 2,100 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 120 |
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Urakaze (浦風, "Bay Wind") was the lead ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy′s Urakaze-class destroyers. Completed in 1915, she served during World War I, followed by service on the Yangtze in China during the 1920s and 1930s. She was the only unit of her class to enter Japanese service, the Japanese having sold her only sister ship, Kawakaze, to Italy while Kawakaze was under construction. Urakaze also was the last Japanese destroyer built in a foreign shipyard to enter service in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Stricken in 1936, she thereafter was used for training until she was sunk during World War II in an Allied air raid in 1945. She was refloated and scrapped in 1948.