Japanese destroyer Numakaze
{{short description|Destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy}}
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image =Numakaze destroyer.jpg | Ship caption = Numakaze }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship country = Empire of Japan | Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|Empire of Japan|naval}} | Ship name = Numakaze | Ship namesake = | Ship ordered = 1918 fiscal year | Ship builder = Maizuru Naval Arsenal | Ship laid down = 10 August 1921 | Ship launched = 25 February 1922 | Ship completed = | Ship acquired = | Ship commissioned = 24 July 1922 | Ship decommissioned = | Ship fate = Torpedoed and sunk on 18 December 1943 | Ship struck = 5 February 1944 | Ship honors = | Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship class = improved {{sclass|Minekaze|destroyer}} |Ship displacement=*{{convert|1215|LT|t}} normal,
|Ship length=*{{convert|97.5|m|ft|abbr=on}} pp,
|Ship beam={{convert|8.9|m|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship draught={{convert|2.9|m|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship draft= |Ship propulsion=2-shaft Mitsubishi-Parsons geared turbines, 4 boilers {{convert|38500|ihp|kW|lk=in|abbr=on}} |Ship speed={{convert|39|kn|km/h|lk=in}} |Ship range={{convert|3600|nmi|km}} at {{convert|14|kn|km/h}} |Ship complement=148 | Ship sensors = | Ship EW = | Ship armament =*4 × Type 3 120 mm 45 caliber naval gun
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{{nihongo|Numakaze|沼風| Marsh Wind }}Nelson. Japanese-English Character Dictionary. pages 539, 960 was third and final vessel in the Nokaze sub-class, an improvement to the {{sclass|Minekaze|destroyer|0}} 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.
History
Construction of the large-sized Minekaze-class destroyers was authorized as part of the Imperial Japanese Navy's 8-4 Fleet Program from fiscal 1917 with nine vessels, and fiscal 1918 with an additional six vessels. However, the final three vessels in the fiscal 1918 were built to a different design and have a different enough silhouette that many authors consider them to be a separate class.{{cite web | url= http://smmlonline.com/articles/minekaze/minekaze.html | title= IJN Minekaze, Kamikaze and Mutsuki class Destroyers | last= Jones | first= Daniel H. | year= 2003 | publisher= Ship Modeler's Mailing List (SMML) | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080828190211/http://www.smmlonline.com/articles/minekaze/minekaze.html | archive-date= 2008-08-28 }} Numakaze, built at the Maizuru Naval Arsenal, was the third ship of this sub-class. The destroyer was laid down on 10 August 1921, launched on 25 February 1922 and commissioned on 27 July 1922.{{cite web | url= http://homepage2.nifty.com/nishidah/e/stc0418.htm | title= Minekaze class 1st class destroyers | last= Nishidah | first= Hiroshi | year= 2002 | work= Materials of the Imperial Japanese Navy | access-date= 2008-12-29 | archive-url= https://archive.today/20120708205335/http://homepage2.nifty.com/nishidah/e/stc0418.htm | archive-date= 2012-07-08 | url-status= dead }}
On completion, Numakaze was teamed with {{ship|Japanese destroyer|Namikaze||2}}, {{ship|Japanese destroyer|Nokaze||2}} and flagship {{ship|Japanese destroyer|Kamikaze|1922|2}} to form Destroyer Division 1 (第一駆逐艦). In 1938-1939, the Division was assigned to patrols of the northern and central China coastlines in support of Japanese combat operations in the Second Sino-Japanese War
=World War II history=
At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Numakaze was based at the Ōminato Guard District in northern Japan, and was assigned to patrols of the Hokkaidō and Chishima Islands coastlines.
During the Battle of Midway in May 1942, Numakaze was assigned to the reserve force for the Aleutian Islands Operation, which did not leave Japanese waters. Afterwards, she returned to patrol and escort duties based out of Ōminato through July 1943, when the ship was assigned temporarily to the IJN 5th Fleet for the mission to evacuate surviving Japanese forces from Kiska. On 6 June 1943, Numakaze suffered damage in a collision with the destroyer {{ship|Japanese destroyer|Shirakumo|1927|2}}. Numakaze continued to be based at Ōminato for patrol and escort in northern waters until December 1943.
In December 1943, Numakaze was reassigned to the Combined Fleet, departing from Moji on 5 December as part of the 1st Surface Escort Division escorting a convoy to Taiwan. However, on 18 December 1943, Numakaze, while chasing the wake of the submarine {{USS|Grayback|SS-208|6}}, was hit by a torpedo, blew up and sank east-northeast of Naha, Okinawa at position {{coord|26|29|N|128|26|E |region:JP-47 |display=inline,title}}. The destroyer was lost with all hands, including the commanding officer of DesDiv 1, Commander Watanabe Yasumasa.{{cite web| url= http://www.combinedfleet.com/numaka_t.htm| title= IJN Numakaze: Tabular Record of Movement| last= Nevitt | first= Allyn D. | year= 1997 | work= Long Lancers | publisher= Combinedfleet.com}}
On 5 February 1944 Numakaze was removed from navy list.Brown. Warship Losses of World War II
Notes
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References
- {{cite book | last = Brown | first = David| year = 1990 | title = Warship Losses of World War Two | publisher = Naval Institute Press| isbn = 1-55750-914-X}}
- {{cite book| last = Howarth | first = Stephen | year = 1983 | title = The Fighting Ships of the Rising Sun: The Drama of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1895–1945 | publisher = Atheneum | isbn = 0-689-11402-8}}
- {{cite book | last = Jentsura | first = Hansgeorg | year = 1976 | title = Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945 | publisher = US Naval Institute Press | isbn = 0-87021-893-X }}
- {{cite book | last = Nelson | first = Andrew N. | year = 1967 | title = Japanese–English Character Dictionary | publisher = Tuttle | isbn = 0-8048-0408-7 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/modernreadersjap00nels }}
- {{cite book | last = Watts | first = Anthony J | year = 1967 | title = Japanese Warships of World War II | publisher = Doubleday | isbn = 978-0-3850-9189-3}}
- {{cite book | last = Whitley | first = M J | title = Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia| publisher = Arms and Armour Press | year = 2000 | location = London | isbn = 1-85409-521-8 }}
External links
- {{cite web | url= http://homepage2.nifty.com/nishidah/e/stc0418.htm | title= Minekaze class 1st class destroyers | last= Nishidah | first= Hiroshi | year= 2002 | work= Materials of the Imperial Japanese Navy | access-date= 2008-12-29 | archive-url= https://archive.today/20120708205335/http://homepage2.nifty.com/nishidah/e/stc0418.htm | archive-date= 2012-07-08 | url-status= dead }}
- {{cite web | url= http://smmlonline.com/articles/minekaze/minekaze.html | title= IJN Minekaze, Kamikaze and Mutsuki class Destroyers | last= Jones | first= Daniel H. | year= 2003 | publisher= Ship Modeler's Mailing List (SMML) | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080828190211/http://www.smmlonline.com/articles/minekaze/minekaze.html | archive-date= 2008-08-28 }}
- {{cite web | url= http://www.combinedfleet.com/numaka_t.htm| title= IJN Numakaze: Tabular Record of Movement | last= Nevitt | first= Allyn D. | year= 1997 | work= Long Lancers | publisher= Combinedfleet.com| access-date= 2008-06-11 }}
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Category:Minekaze-class destroyers
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Category:World War II destroyers of Japan
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