Urakadze ( 浦 風 marine wind ) is a Japanese Kagero-class destroyer. The name Urakadze The eleventh of 19 Kagero-class destroyers built in 1937-1941 at Japanese shipyards for the Imperial Navy of Japan as part of the Third Program for the Expansion of the Naval Arms widely used in military historical literature ( Maru San Keikaku ).
| Urakadze | |
|---|---|
| jap. 浦 風 | |
 Destroyer Urakaze (12/15/1940) | |
| Service | |
 Japan | |
| Class and type of vessel | destroyer |
| Organization | Imperial Navy of Japan |
| Manufacturer | Uraga Dock Yokosuka |
| Construction started | April 11, 1939 |
| Launched | April 19, 1940 |
| Commissioned | December 15, 1940 |
| Withdrawn from the fleet | January 10, 1945 |
| Status | sunk |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 2,033 t standard 2,530 t full |
| Length | 118.5 m |
| Width | 10.80 m |
| Draft | 3.76 m |
| Engines | 3 Kampon boilers 2 TK “Kanpon” |
| Power | 52 000 h.p. (39 000 kW ) |
| Mover | 2 |
| Speed | 35 knots (40 mph; 65 km / h) |
| Sailing range | 5,000 miles at 18 knots |
| Crew | 240 people |
| Armament | |
| Artillery | 6 (3x2) 12.7 cm / 50 Type 3 |
| Flak | 28 25-mm anti-aircraft guns Type 96 , |
| Anti-submarine weapons | 36 depth charges |
| Mine torpedo armament | 2x4 610 mm SLT 24 torpedoes Type 93 |
Content
Background
The destroyers of the Kagero type were outwardly almost identical to the destroyers of the Asashio type , but with improvements made by Japanese designers. They were designed to accompany Japanese main forces and repel U.S. Navy attacks during the day and night as they move across the Pacific , in line with Japanese naval strategic forecasts. [1] Despite the fact that destroyers of the Kagero type belonged to one of the most powerful ships of their class in the world at the time of their completion, only one of the 19 built survived during the war in the Pacific Ocean . [2]
History
Laid down in 1939 at the Uraga Dock shipyard, Yokosuka . Launched on April 10, 1940 , entered service on December 15, 1940 .
Accompanied the compound attacking Pearl Harbor . He took an active part in the battle of the Solomon Islands . On October 26, 1942, under the command of captain of the 2nd rank Juichi Iwagami, as part of the 10th destroyer division, he entered the Forward detachment of the Shock aircraft carrier formation (commander Admiral Tyuichi Nagumo ) in the battle of the islands near Santa Cruz . After the battle he escorted to the base on the island of Truk the damaged heavy cruiser Tikuma .
He participated in the battles for the Philippines in 1944 . On June 9, 1944, the Urakadze, not far from Tavi-Tavi, saved 126 surviving crew members of the destroyer Tanikaze , led by commander Commander-Lieutenant Ikeda, who was sunk by the submarine USS Harder . During the Battle of the Philippine Sea , Urakadze helped rescue the sailors of the Shokaku aircraft carrier, which was sunk by the submarine USS Cavalla .
On November 21, 1944, the Urakadze was torpedoed by the USS Sealion submarine [3] and sank with the entire crew 65 miles (105 km) north-northwest of Jilong (Taiwan) at Removed from the fleet lists on January 10, 1945 . [four]
Notes
- ↑ Peattie & Evans, Kaigun
- ↑ IJN Kagero class destroyers . Globalsecurity.org Date of appeal September 19, 2016.
- ↑ Whitley, MJ Battleships of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. - Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1998 .-- P. 184. - ISBN 1-55750-184-X . (eng.)
- ↑ Brown, David. Warship Losses of World War Two. - Naval Institute Press, 1990. - ISBN 1-55750-914-X . (eng.)
Literature
- Brown, David. Warship Losses of World War Two. - Naval Institute Press, 1990. - ISBN 1-55750-914-X . (eng.)
- D'Albas, Andrieu. Death of a Navy: Japanese Naval Action in World War II. - Devin-Adair Pub, 1965. - ISBN 0-8159-5302-X . (eng.)
- Evans, David. Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941. - US Naval Institute Press, 1979. - ISBN 0-87021-192-7 . (eng.)
- Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946 / Roger Chesneau. - Grenwitch: Conway Maritime Press, 1980 .-- ISBN 0-85177-146-7 . (eng.)
- Howarth, Stephen. The Fighting Ships of the Rising Sun: The Drama of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1895–1945. - Atheneum, 1983. - ISBN 0-689-11402-8 . (eng.)
- Jentsura, Hansgeorg. Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945. - US Naval Institute Press, 1976. - ISBN 0-87021-893-X . (eng.)
- Watts, AJ Japanese Warships of World War II , Ian Allen, London, 1967 .
- Whitley, MJ Destroyers of World War 2. - Cassell Publishing, 1988 .-- ISBN 1-85409-521-8 . (eng.)