Japanese destroyer Sakura (1911)

Sakura was a Sakura-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy, built under the 1910 Programme as a 2nd Class destroyer.

Destroyer Sakura at Sasebo, 1918
History
Empire of Japan
Name: Sakura
Builder: Maizuru Navy Dockyard
Laid down: March 1911
Launched: 20 December 1911
Commissioned: 21 May 1912
Fate: Scrapped 1933
General characteristics
Class and type: Sakura-class destroyer
Displacement:
  • 605 tons normal
  • 830 tons full load
Length: 83.6 m (274 ft)
Beam: 7.3 m (24 ft)
Draught: 2.2 m (7.2 ft)
Propulsion: reciprocating engines, 9,500 ihp (7,100 kW)
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range: 2,400 nautical miles (4,400 km; 2,800 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement: 92
Armament:
  • 1 × 120 mm/40 cal Type 41 guns
  • 4 × 76 mm/40 cal Type 41 guns
  • 4 × 457 mm torpedo tubes

Design

Sakura and her sister ship Tachibana were at first planned to be large ocean-going vessels however due to financial problems they were redesigned to a smaller type. Unlike the preceding Umikaze class, which was powered by Parsons turbines, Tachibana was installed with vertical expansion engines.

Service

The ship, built at the Maizuru Naval Arsenal, was launched in 1911, completed in 1912, and entered service shortly afterward. After 20 years of service, Sakura was decommissioned in 1932 and scrapped in 1933.[1]

References
  • Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1922–1946
  1. "IJN Sakura Class Destroyers". GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved 21 May 2020.


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