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Shiokaze

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ClassMinekaze class
TypeDestroyer (DD)
BuilderMaizuru Naval Arsenal
Launched1920-10-22
Commissioned1921-07-29
FateAfloat. Surrendered, still docked unrepaired at Kure. She evacuated troops after the war and was struck on 5 October 1945. She was later scuttled to form part of the breakwater at Onahama Port, Fukushima.
Armament (class)Older fleet destroyer. Four single guns and two funnels.

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.

Shiokaze
Shiokaze with the battlecruiser Kongo, 1924. Photograph from the Japanese book Photographs of Japanese Warships vol. 10, as credited on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons File:IJN DD Shiokaze and BC Kongo in 1924.jpg. Public domain.

The name means tide wind. Shiokaze was the eighth ship of the Minekaze class. Maizuru Naval Arsenal laid her down on 15 May 1920, launched her on 22 October 1920 and commissioned her on 29 July 1921. On 9 March 1928, on torpedo trials off Yokosuka, she collided with the submarine I-21; nobody was hurt and both ships were lightly damaged. In 1938 and 1939 she patrolled the south China coast.

At Pearl Harbor she was in Destroyer Division 3 of the 1st Air Fleet at Palau, escorting the carrier Ryujo for the Philippines invasion. From January 1942 she was at Cam Ranh Bay, supporting the Sarawak, Palembang and Java operations. In early March 1942 she helped Matsukaze sink the Dutch auxiliary minesweeper Endeh; the two articles give the date as 1 and 2 March. Later in March she joined Ryujo for the Andaman invasion and the Indian Ocean raids. On 10 April she went to the Fifth Fleet for the Aleutians operation, and in August she returned to the Southwest Area Fleet.

From 1943 to January 1945 she escorted convoys between Japan and Manila, Singapore and Palau. On 31 January 1945, south of Taiwan, she took minor damage trying to evacuate aircrew from Aparri on Luzon and went to Kure for repairs that were never finished. She was still docked there at the surrender. After the war she evacuated troops from the Asian mainland, and on 5 October 1945 she was removed from the Navy List. She was later scuttled as part of the breakwater at Onahama Port.

Sources: Wikipedia, Japanese destroyer Shiokaze, rewritten here.

The pictures on this page are the originals.