Minekaze-class destroyer
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The Minekaze class was a class of fifteen 1st-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Obsolete by the beginning of the Pacific War, the Minekaze-class ships were then relegated to mostl
Minekaze at Yokosuka on 30 August 1932
Office of Naval Intelligence recognition drawing of Minekaze class
Aft view of Namikaze showing revised weapons layout of the Nokaze sub-class, 1925
The Japanese destroyer Shimakaze was one of 15 Minekaze-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1910s. The ship was converted into a patrol boat in 1940 and then into a destr
Minekaze-class destroyer
…and some were converted for other duties. In 1938, Okikaze was disarmed, but in 1941 with the war fast approaching she remounted her guns. Nadakaze and Shimakaze were redesigned as Patrol Boats 1 and 2 and became destroyer-transports in 1939–1940. In 1941, Sawakaze had her armament removed and was used as an…
Shimakaze in 1922