An item referred to the magazine Schiffbau reporting that Japan was building 1.900 ton flotilla leaders of the Akikaze design which were to be completed in 1921. The horsepower of 50.000 hp was to make a maximum speed of 38 miles and with a fuel oil bunker capacity of 600 ton a range of 3.500 nautical miles possible. The armament consisted of 4/5-12,7cm guns and 6-53cm torpedo tubes.91)
Note
1. The Akikaze was of the Minekaze-1st class destroyers with a displacement of 1.234 (normal)-1.367(full load) tons. Horsepower 38.500shp, speed 39 knots and an armament of 4-12cm/4.7” guns, 2-7,7mm machineguns, 6-53,3cm/21” torpedo tunes and avaible to take 16 naval mines with her. Built under the Fiscal year 1918, laid down by Maizuru Naval Arsenal, Nagasaki, Japan on 7 June 1920, launched on 14 December 1920, commissioned on 16 September 1921, torpedoed and sunk by the American submarine USS Pintado with all hands 160 miles west of Cape Bolinoa, Luzon, Philippines underway from Mako, Taiwan towards Brunei on 3 November 1944 and stricken on 10 January 1945.
Note
1. The Akikaze was of the Minekaze-1st class destroyers with a displacement of 1.234 (normal)-1.367(full load) tons. Horsepower 38.500shp, speed 39 knots and an armament of 4-12cm/4.7” guns, 2-7,7mm machineguns, 6-53,3cm/21” torpedo tunes and avaible to take 16 naval mines with her. Built under the Fiscal year 1918, laid down by Maizuru Naval Arsenal, Nagasaki, Japan on 7 June 1920, launched on 14 December 1920, commissioned on 16 September 1921, torpedoed and sunk by the American submarine USS Pintado with all hands 160 miles west of Cape Bolinoa, Luzon, Philippines underway from Mako, Taiwan towards Brunei on 3 November 1944 and stricken on 10 January 1945.
