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Japanese Destroyer Sakaki (1915)
was one of 10 s built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I. While operating in the Aegean Sea, ''Sakaki'' was torpedoed by an Austro-Hungarian Navy, Austro-Hungarian U-boat in 1917. Design and description The ''Kaba''-class destroyers were improved versions of the preceding . They Displacement (ship), displaced at normal load and at deep load. The ships had a length between perpendiculars of and an length overall, overall length of , a beam (nautical), beam of and a draft (ship), draught of . The ''Kaba''s were powered by three Marine steam engine#Triple or multiple expansion, vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft using steam produced by four Kampon water-tube boilers.Friedman 1985, p. 242 Two boilers burned a mixture of coal and fuel oil while the other pair only used oil.Todaka, et al., p. 215 The engines produced a total of that gave the ships maximum speeds of .Watts & Gordon, p. 248 They carried a maximum of of coal and of oil w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sasebo, Nagasaki
is a Core cities of Japan, core city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It is also the second largest city in Nagasaki Prefecture, after its capital, Nagasaki. On 1 June 2019, the city had an estimated population of 247,739 and a population density of 581 persons per km2 (1,505 persons per square mile). The total area is . The city includes a part of Saikai National Park. Located in the southern part of the city is the Dutch-styled theme park ''Huis Ten Bosch (theme park), Huis Ten Bosch''. The island of Ukujima is also administered as part of Sasebo city. History The area of present-day Sasebo was a small fishing village under the control of nearby Hirado Domain until shortly after the start of the Meiji period. Imperial Japanese Navy Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō, when surveying the coasts of northwestern Kyūshū for the site of a navy base, selected his location based on its protected, deep-water harbor, geographic proximity to China and Korea, and the presence of nearby Coal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
