Posted by Ultradog MN on May 10, 2017 at 03:31:25 from (172.58.83.60):
Name translation: Island Wind Length/beam/draft 413'/37'/14' Displacement 3000 tons - that's a huge destroyer.
"One word sums up this magnificent vessel: power. She had a top speed of almost 40 knots (that's really moving, people), 6 x 5" guns, and a main torpedo battery of 15 (count 'em) 24" tubes. She was, in my opinion, the most powerful destroyer of the war -- the superb U.S. Allen Sumner had comparable gun power and better fire control, and the French Mogadors had the same speed and superior 8 x 5.5" gunpower (not to mention almost 1,000 tons of full load displacement -- nearly a light cruiser), but neither of these classes had the kind of torpedo battery capable of scuppering an entire squadron of opponents at a crack. Of course, because of her outsized powerplant she was far too expensive to be built in any sort of quantity (Japan was losing the war big-time by the time she was launched), and her sixteen sister ships were never laid down."
"The SHIMAKAZE (hull number 125, ordered under the 1939 Program) was planned and built as the experimental prototype of a new class of heavy fleet destroyer, designated "Type C." Sixteen other units were ordered but later cancelled due to more pressing wartime needs. Though never repeated, SHIMAKAZE was a successful design, combining large size (some 25 feet longer than YUGUMO), firepower (six 5" guns in new Type D turrets), and heavy torpedo armament (three quintuple sets of 24" tubes, the most powerful such broadside ever mounted on a Japanese destroyer) with a 40-knot top speed. The latter was thanks to new high- pressure, high-temperature boilers which developed nearly 80,000 shaft horsepower and would have propelled all future Japanese destroyer designs, had circumstances permitted their construction. All experimental projects were set aside at the beginning of the war in favor of more urgent work, so SHIMAKAZE, though laid down in July of 1941, was not completed until the spring of 1943. The delays in her construction did, however, enable her to be fitted with the very latest equipment, and SHIMAKAZE was one of the first Imperial warships to mount radar when completed. As none of her contemporaries could match her performance characteristics, SHIMAKAZE was never assigned to any individual destroyer division, but operated more or less independently within the squadron structure. If SHIMAKAZE's service as radar guide and screen flagship for the Kiska evacuation was the high point of her career, then her "non- participation" in the Battle off Samar (held back due to her being encumbered by MAYA survivors) was probably the low: her mighty torpedo batteries would never have had better targets. Her crew fought hard and died bravely with her under overwhelming air assault in Ormoc Bay. But overall, SHIMAKAZE seems to have enjoyed a very "ordinary" career for a warship of such extraordinary potential."
The only known picture of Shimakaze, running flat out with a bone in her teeth
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