Japanese destroyer Shiratsuyu (1906)
{{short description|Destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy}}
{{other ships|Japanese destroyer Shiratsuyu}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Harasame-asakase.jpg |Ship caption=Sister ship Ayanami }} {{Infobox ship career |Ship country=Empire of Japan |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Empire of Japan|naval}} |Ship name=Shiratsuyu |Ship builder=Mitsubishi Shipyards, Nagasaki |Ship laid down=25 February 1905 |Ship launched =12 February 1906 |Ship completed=6 August 1906 |Ship renamed= |Ship out of service=12 February 1930 |Ship reclassified= As a tugboat and dispatch boat, 1 August 1928 |Ship decommissioned=1 April 1928 |Ship fate=Scrapped, 1930 }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Header caption=(as built) |Ship class={{sclass|Kamikaze|destroyer (1905)|0}} destroyer |Ship displacement=*{{convert|381|LT|t|lk=on}}
|Ship length=*{{convert|227|ft|m|abbr=on|1}} (pp)
|Ship beam={{convert|21|ft|7|in|m|abbr=on|1}} |Ship draught={{convert|6|ft|m|abbr=on|1}} |Ship power=4 boilers; {{cvt|6000|ihp|kW|lk=on}} |Ship propulsion=2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines |Ship speed={{convert|29|kn|lk=in}} |Ship range={{cvt|1200|nmi|lk=in}} at {{convert|15|kn}} |Ship complement=70 |Ship armament=
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{{nihongo|Shiratsuyu|白露|}} ("White dew") was one of 32 {{sclass|Kamikaze|destroyer (1905)|0}} 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 {{sclass|Harusame|destroyer|4}}.Friedman 1985, p. 241 They displaced {{convert|381|LT|t|lk=on}} at normal load and {{convert|450|LT|t}} at deep load. The ships had a length between perpendiculars of {{convert|227|ft|m|1}} and an overall length of {{convert|234|ft|m|1}}, a beam of {{convert|21|ft|7|in|m|1}} and a draught of {{convert|6|ft|m|1}}. 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 {{convert|6000|ihp|lk=on}} that gave the ships a maximum speed of {{convert|29|kn|lk=in}}. They carried a maximum of {{convert|100|LT|t|0}} of coalWatts & Gordon, p. 243 which gave them a range of {{convert|1500|nmi|lk=in}} at a speed of {{convert|15|kn}}. Their crew consisted of 70 officers and ratings.Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 133
The main armament of the Kamikaze-class ships consisted of two 40-calibre quick-firing (QF) QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun"Cwt" is the abbreviation for hundredweight, 12 cwt referring to the weight of the gun. 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 for {{convert|450|mm|in|adj=on|1}}Friedman 2011, p. 349 torpedoes between the superstructure and the stern gun.
Construction and career
Shiratsuyu was laid down at Mitsubishi's shipyard in Nagasaki on 25 February 1905 and launched on 12 February 1906. Completed on 6 June, the ship saw service in World War I and participated in the Siberian Expedition. She was decommissioned on 1 April 1928, but was reclassified as a tugboat and dispatch boat on 1 August. The ship remained in use until 12 February 1930Todaka, et al., p. 218 and was subsequently broken up.
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Books
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Gardiner|editor1-first=Robert|editor2-last=Gray|editor2-first=Randal |title= Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921|year=1985|location=Annapolis|publisher=Naval Institute Press|isbn=0-87021-907-3|name-list-style=amp|chapter=Japan|author=Friedman, Norman|author-link=Norman Friedman}}
- {{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|title=Naval Weapons of World War One|publisher=Seaforth |location=Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK|year=2011|isbn=978-1-84832-100-7}}
- {{cite book| last = Jentschura| first = Hansgeorg| first2 = Dieter |last2=Jung|first3=Peter |last3=Mickel| year = 1977| title = Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945| publisher = United States Naval Institute| location = Annapolis, Maryland| isbn = 0-87021-893-X|name-list-style=amp}}
- {{cite book |last1=Todaka |first1=Kazushige |last2=Fukui |first2=Shizuo |last3=Eldridge |first3=Robert D. |last4=Leonard |first4=Graham B. |title=Destroyers: Selected Photos from the Archives of the Kure Maritime Museum; the Best from the Collection of Shizuo Fukui's Photos of Japanese Warships |date=2020 |publisher=Naval Institute Press |location=Annapolis, Maryland |isbn=978-1-59114-630-8 |series=Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album|name-list-style=amp}}
- {{cite book
| last1 = Watts
| first1 = Anthony J.
| last2 = Gordon
| first2 = Brian G.
| year = 1971
| title = The Imperial Japanese Navy
| publisher = Macdonald
| location =London
| isbn = 0-35603-045-8|name-list-style=amp
}}
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Category:Kamikaze-class destroyers (1905)