Urakaze Class Destroyers Class Overview

Dimensions, Machinery and Performance

Length:
286' 1"
Engines:
2 geared turbines
Beam:
27' 6"
Boilers:
3 Yarrow large tube
Draft:
7' 9"
Shafts:
2
Displacement:
907 std / 1,085 full
SHP:
22,000
Speed:
28 knots
Crew:
117
Range:
1,800 NM @ 15 knots


Armament As Built
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
1
4.7"/40 (12cm)
Single mount
9,900 yards @20° (5.6 miles)
4
3"/40 (8cm)
(12 pounder)

Single mounts
10,940 yards @ 42°
4
21" (53cm)
torpedo tubes
2 twin launchers
Up to 10,900 yards @ 27 knots
(depending on type)
353 lb. warhead



Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Decommissioned
Urakaze
Yarrow Shipbuilders LTD
Scotstoun, Scotland

Feb. 16, 1915
N/A
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1948.

*Hulked in 1936 as Haikan # 18.

*Sunk July 18, 1945 by US Aircraft from TF-38.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Decommissioned
Kawakaze
Yarrow Shipbuilders LTD
Scotstoun, Scotland

Sept. 27, 1915
N/A
N/A
Fate
Sunk as German TA-20 Nov. 1, 1944 by HMS Avon Vale L-06 and HMS Wheatland L-22.

Location: Adriatic Sea West of Pag Island (44.34N - 14.44E)

*Sold to Italy in 1916 and renamed Audace, captured by Germany Sept. 12, 1943 and renamed TA-20.



Class Notes:
N/A