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Akikaze

Sunk

Minekaze-class destroyer. She was an air-sea rescue and convoy escort ship in the Philippines and Rabaul, was the ship on which about 60 civilians were killed on 18 March 1943, and was sunk by USS Pintado on 3 November 1944.

Class	Minekaze class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Builder	Mitsubishi, Nagasaki
Launched	1920-12-14
Commissioned	1921-09-16
Fate	Sunk. Torpedoed and sunk by USS Pintado on 3 November 1944, 160 miles west of Cape Bolinao, Luzon, escorting the carrier Junyo and the cruiser Kiso. Wikipedia says she was lost with all 205 aboard; combinedfleet.com says the number of survivors, if any, is unknown. Wikipedia says she took torpedoes aimed at Junyo; combinedfleet.com only records her as torpedoed.
Armament (class)	Older fleet destroyer. Four single guns and two funnels.
Command	Yamazaki, Nitaro In command when she was sunk on 3 November 1944; killed Sabe, Tsurukichi Commanding officer from 20 October 1942; Killed in the air raid of 2 August 1943

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

Akikaze leaving Yokosuka, 1923. Photo from the Kaigunsha book History of Japanese Destroyers (1992), as credited on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons File:IJN Akikaze departing Yokosuka Taisho 12.jpg. Public domain.

The pictures on this page are the originals.

Command

NYYamazaki, NitaroIn command when she was sunk on 3 November 1944; killed TSSabe, TsurukichiCommanding officer from 20 October 1942Killed in the air raid of 2 August 1943

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