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List Of Destroyers Of Japan
The following is a list of destroyers and 1st class (steam) torpedo boats of Japan grouped by class or design. Each ship's name is followed by its launch date in brackets. In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. The Japanese torpedo boat of 1885 was "the forerunner of torpedo boat destroyers that appeared a decade later". They were designed to Japanese specifications and ordered from the London Yarrow Shipbuilders, Yarrow shipyards in 1885. The Yarrow shipyards, builder of the parts for the ''Kotaka'', "considered Japan to have effectively invented the destroyer". Imperial Japanese Navy Russo-Japanese War These twenty-three 'turtle-back' destroyers, all authorised under the Ten Year Naval Expansion Programme of 1898, comprised six ''Ikazuchi'' class built by Yarrow and six ''Murakumo'' class built b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Destroyer
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, manoeuvrable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against powerful short range attackers. They were originally developed in 1885 by Fernando Villaamil for the Spanish NavySmith, Charles Edgar: ''A short history of naval and marine engineering.'' Babcock & Wilcox, ltd. at the University Press, 1937, page 263 as a defense against torpedo boats, and by the time of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, these "torpedo boat destroyers" (TBDs) were "large, swift, and powerfully armed torpedo boats designed to destroy other torpedo boats". Although the term "destroyer" had been used interchangeably with "TBD" and "torpedo boat destroyer" by navies since 1892, the term "torpedo boat destroyer" had been generally shortened to simply "destroyer" by nearly all navies by the First World War. Before World War II, destroyers were light vessels with little endurance for unattended o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Destroyer Audace (1916)
The Italian destroyer ''Audace'' was originally ordered by Japan from Yarrow Shipbuilders in Scotland under the name of ''Kawakaze'', but was transferred to Italy in 1916 while still under construction. She served as the command ship for the radio-controlled target ship in 1937–1940 and then was rearmed for convoy escort and patrolling duties when World War II began. ''Audace'' was captured by the Germans in 1943 and used by them as a minelayer and escort ship in the Adriatic Sea until she was sunk by a pair of British destroyers in late 1944. Design and description ''Audace'' had a length between perpendiculars of and an overall length of . She had a beam of and a draft of . The ship displaced at normal load, and at deep load. Her complement was 5 officers and 113 enlisted men.Fraccaroli 1970, p. 72 The ship was powered by two Brown-Curtis steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam supplied by 3 Yarrow boilers. Designed for a maximum output of and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Destroyer Take (1919)
The Japanese destroyer was one of 21 s built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1910s. She was decommissioned in 1940 before being recommissioned as a training ship. She was finally scuttled as a breakwater at the Port of Akita on the Sea of Japan coast of Honshu, Japan, in 1948. Design and description The ''Momi'' class was designed with higher speed and better seakeeping than the preceding second-class destroyers. The ships had an overall length of and were between perpendiculars. They had a beam of , and a mean draft of . The ''Momi''-class ships displaced at standard load and at deep load.Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 137 ''Take'' was powered by two Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by three Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were designed to produce to give the ships a speed of . The ships carried a maximum of of fuel oil which gave them a range of at . Their crew consisted of 110 off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Destroyer Nashi (1919)
The Japanese destroyer was one of 21 s built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1910s. She was decommissioned in 1940 and subsequently scrapped. Design and description The ''Momi'' class was designed with higher speed and better seakeeping than the preceding second-class destroyers. The ships had an overall length of and were between perpendiculars. They had a beam of , and a mean draft of . The ''Momi''-class ships displaced at standard load and at deep load.Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 137 ''Nashi'' was powered by two Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by three Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were designed to produce to give the ships a speed of . The ships carried a maximum of of fuel oil which gave them a range of at . Their crew consisted of 110 officers and crewmen. The main armament of the ''Momi''-class ships consisted of three Type 3 guns in single mounts; one gun forward of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Destroyer Kuri (1920)
The Japanese destroyer was one of 21 s built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1910s. She struck a mine off of Pusan, Korea, in October 1945 and was subsequently stricken from the naval list. Design and description The ''Momi'' class was designed with higher speed and better seakeeping than the preceding second-class destroyers. The ships had an overall length of and were between perpendiculars. They had a beam of , and a mean draft of . The ''Momi''-class ships displaced at standard load and at deep load.Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 137 ''Kuri'' was powered by two Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by three Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were designed to produce to give the ships a speed of . The ships carried a maximum of of fuel oil which gave them a range of at . Their crew consisted of 110 officers and crewmen. The main armament of the ''Momi''-class ships consisted of three Type ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Destroyer Nire (1919)
The Japanese destroyer was one of 21 s built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1910s. She survived the Pacific War and was subsequently scrapped by mid-1948. Design and description The ''Momi'' class was designed with higher speed and better seakeeping than the preceding second-class destroyers. The ships had an overall length of and were between perpendiculars. They had a beam of , and a mean draft of . The ''Momi''-class ships displaced at standard load and at deep load.Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 137 ''Nire'' was powered by two Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by three Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were designed to produce to give the ships a speed of . The ships carried a maximum of of fuel oil which gave them a range of at . Their crew consisted of 110 officers and crewmen. The main armament of the ''Momi''-class ships consisted of three Type 3 guns in single mounts; one gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Destroyer Kaya (1919)
The Japanese destroyer was one of 21 s built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1910s. She was decommissioned in 1939 and subsequently scrapped. Design and description The ''Momi'' class was designed with higher speed and better seakeeping than the preceding second-class destroyers. The ships had an overall length of and were between perpendiculars. They had a beam of , and a mean draft of . The ''Momi''-class ships displaced at standard load and at deep load.Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 137 ''Kaya'' was powered by two Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by three Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were designed to produce to give the ships a speed of . The ships carried a maximum of of fuel oil which gave them a range of at . Their crew consisted of 110 officers and crewmen. The main armament of the ''Momi''-class ships consisted of three Type 3 guns in single mounts; one gun forward of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Destroyer Momi (1919)
The Japanese destroyer was the lead ship of her class of 21 second-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the late 1910s. She was converted into an experimental ship in 1932 and later scrapped. Design and description The ''Momi'' class was designed with higher speed and better seakeeping than the preceding second-class destroyers. The ships had an overall length of and were between perpendiculars. They had a beam of , and a mean draft of . The ''Momi''-class ships displaced at standard load and at deep load.Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 137 ''Momi'' was powered by two Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by three Kampon water-tube boilers.Friedman, p. 244 The turbines were designed to produce to give the ships a speed of . The ships carried a maximum of of fuel oil which gave them a range of at . Their crew consisted of 110 officers and crewmen.Watts & Gordon, p. 260 The main armamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific War
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War, was the theater of World War II that was fought in Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania. It was geographically the largest theater of the war, including the vast Pacific Ocean theater, the South West Pacific theater, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Soviet–Japanese War. The Second Sino-Japanese War between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China had been in progress since 7 July 1937, with hostilities dating back as far as 19 September 1931 with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. However, it is more widely accepted that the Pacific War itself began on 7 December (8 December Japanese time) 1941, when the Japanese simultaneously invaded Thailand, attacked the British colonies of Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong as well as the United States military and naval bases in Hawaii, Wake Island, Guam, and the Philippines. The Pacific War saw the Allies pitted against Japan, the latter ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Destroyer Tanikaze (1918)
''Tanikaze'' (谷風, Valley Wind) was the second and last of the s built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I. Design and description The ''Kawakaze''-class destroyers were enlarged and faster versions of the preceding with a more powerful armament. They displaced at normal load and at deep load. The ships had a length between perpendiculars of and a overall length of , a beam of and a draught of . ''Tanikaze'' was powered by two Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, each driving one shaftFriedman 1985, p. 243 using steam produced by four Type Ro Kampon water-tube boilers.Todaka, et al., p. 208 The engines produced a total of that gave the ships a maximum speed of .Watts & Gordon, p. 254 They carried enough fuel oil to give them a range of at a speed of . Their crew consisted of 128 officers and ratings.Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 140 The main armament of the ''Kawakaze''-class ships consisted of three quick-firing (QF) guns; one gun each was locate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Destroyer Kawakaze (1917)
Kawakaze (江風, Inlet Wind) was the lead ship of her class of two destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War I. Design and description The ''Kawakaze''-class destroyers were enlarged and faster versions of the preceding with a more powerful armament. They displaced at normal load and at deep load. The ships had a length between perpendiculars of and a overall length of , a beam of and a draught of . ''Kawakaze'' was powered by two Parsons geared steam turbines, each driving one shaftFriedman 1985, p. 243 using steam produced by four Type Ro Kampon water-tube boilers.Todaka, et al., p. 208 The engines produced a total of that gave the ships a maximum speed of .Watts & Gordon, p. 254 They carried enough fuel oil to give them a range of at a speed of . Their crew consisted of 128 officers and ratings.Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 140 The main armament of the ''Kawakaze''-class ships consisted of three quick-firing (QF) guns; one gun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against France. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the early 16th century; the oldest of the UK's armed services, it is consequently known as the Senior Service. From the middle decades of the 17th century, and through the 18th century, the Royal Navy vied with the Dutch Navy and later with the French Navy for maritime supremacy. From the mid 18th century, it was the world's most powerful navy until the Second World War. The Royal Navy played a key part in establishing and defending the British Empire, and four Imperial fortress colonies and a string of imperial bases and coaling stations secured the Royal Navy's ability to assert naval superiority globally. Owing to this historical prominence, it is common, even among non-Britons, to ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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