IJN · DD
Isokaze
Photos and infoKagero-class destroyer. The name means shore wind. She screened the Pearl Harbor carriers and was not hit. At Midway she stood by Soryu. Off Samar she was in Kurita's screen and was not sunk. On 7 April 1945 near misses wrecked her with Yamato. Yukikaze took the survivors off and fired into the abandoned ship. The loss is credited to the air attack.
| Class | Kagero class |
|---|---|
| Type | Destroyer (DD) |
| Builder | Sasebo Naval Arsenal |
| Launched | 1939-06-19 |
| Commissioned | 1940-11-30 |
| Fate | Sunk. Kagero-class destroyer. Screened the Pearl Harbor carriers and was not hit. At Midway a near miss damaged her and she stood by Soryu. The post-war account is that she put three torpedoes into Soryu. That loss is not credited to her. Off Samar she fired torpedoes at the escort carriers and was not sunk. No American ship lost that morning is credited to her. On 7 April 1945 near misses flooded an engine room and took her steering while she was with Yamato. Twenty men were killed and fifty-four wounded. Yukikaze took off 285 survivors and fired into the abandoned ship. The loss is credited to the air attack, not to Yukikaze, and not to one carrier. Struck 25 May 1945. |
| Armament (class) | Three twin 5-inch mounts, two funnels, and two quadruple banks of tubes. |
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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.
Lieutenant Tobei Shiraishi, torpedo officer of Isokaze, took this photograph of her bridge in 1944. Public domain.
The pictures on this page are the originals.
Command
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941-12-07 · screen; not hit
Battle of Midway
1942-06-04 · plane guard for Soryu; a near miss ruptured fuel tanks; not sunk
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
1942-10-26 · in the vanguard force. Not sunk
Battle off Horaniu
1943-08-18 · slightly damaged by one 5-inch shell
Battle of Vella Lavella
1943-10-06 · in the covering group
Battle of the Philippine Sea
1944-06-19 · went alongside Taiho and took men off; not sunk
Battle of the Sibuyan Sea
1944-10-24 · a decrypted message counts men she took off; she went on
Battle off Samar
1944-10-25 · in the screen; not sunk off Samar
Okinawa
1945-04-01 · near misses wrecked her on 7 April; the loss is credited to the air attack
Operation Ten-Go
1945-04-07 · near misses wrecked her; Yukikaze fired into the abandoned ship; the loss is credited to the air attack