Japanese destroyer Kawakaze 1935-1943

Hatsuharu-class

Shiratsuyu-class 

Building ordered under the Fiscal Year 1933, laid down by Fujinagata Shipyards on 25 April 1935, launched on 1 November 1936, commissioned on 30 April 1937, sunk in the Battle of Vella Gulf when torpedoed and with gunfire by the American destroyers USS Dunlap, Craven and Maury on 7 August 1943 and stricken on 15 October 1943. Part of Shiratsuyu-class destroyers preceded by Hatsuharu-class, succeeded by Asashio-class. Consisted of Shiratsuyu, Shigure, Murasame, Yudachi, Harusame, Samidare, Umikaze, Yamakaze, Kawakaze and Suzukaze. Standard displacement 1,712 tons. Speed 34 knots. Armament 2x2&1x1-12.7cm/5” cal 50 Type 3 naval guns, 2x1-13mm Type 93 machine guns, 2x4-61cm/24” torpedo tubes for which 16 Type 9 3 torpedoes were carried and 16 depth charges.