Umikaze Class Destroyers Class Overview

Dimensions, Machinery and Performance

Length:
323' 2"
Engines:
3 Parsons geared turbines
Beam:
27' 9"
Boilers:
8 Kansei
Draft:
8' 9"
Shafts:
3
Displacement:
1,030 std / 1,150 full
SHP:
19,500
Speed:
31.5 knots
Crew:
139
Range:
2,700 NM @ 15 knots


Armament As Built
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
2
4.7"/40 (12cm)
Single mounts
9,900 yards @20° (5.6 miles)
5
3"/40 (8cm)
(12 pounder)

Single mounts
10,940 yards @ 42°
4 (Umikaze)
3 (Yamakaze)
18" (45cm)
torpedo tubes
2 twin launchers
3 single launchers
3,300 yards @ 15 knots (1.8 miles)
198 lb. warhead



Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Decommissioned
Yamakaze
(Minesweeper # 8)
Mitsubishi Zosensho
Nagasaki, Japan


June 1, 1909
N/A
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1936.

*Converted into a minesweeper in 1930.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Decommissioned
Umikaze
(Minesweeper # 7)
Maizuru Navy Yard
Maizuru, Japan

Oct. 10, 1910
N/A
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1936.

*Converted into a minesweeper in 1930.


Class Notes:
Umikaze reached 33.46 knots on trials.