IJN · DD
Tanikaze
Photos and infoKagero-class destroyer. In the carrier screen at Midway, and not sunk there. At Kula Gulf she was in the support group with Niizuki and Suzukaze. She and Suzukaze launched the torpedoes that hit Helena. Not pinned to one of them. One shell that did not explode hit her. Torpedoed by USS Harder in Sibutu Passage on 9 June 1944.
| Class | Kagero class |
|---|---|
| Type | Destroyer (DD) |
| Builder | Fujinagata Shipyards |
| Launched | 1940-11-01 |
| Commissioned | 1941-04-25 |
| Fate | Sunk. Torpedoed by USS Harder in Sibutu Passage, 9 June 1944 |
| 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.
Shizuo Fukui. Japanese destroyer Tanikaze at anchor in April 1941.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The pictures on this page are the originals.
No color version yet. Colored pictures and film will be added here.
Command
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941-12-07 · screen; not hit
Battle of Wake Island
1941-12-11 · with the second landing
Battle of Midway
1942-06-04 · in the screen
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
1942-10-26 · in the vanguard force. Not sunk
Battle of Kula Gulf
1943-07-06 · one dud shell; launched torpedoes with Suzukaze
