Shimakaze
Fastest Destroyer - Shimakaze was experimental super destroyer - fastest destroyer ever built at 40.9 knots. Only ship completed of 16 planned. Fifteen 24-inch torpedoes (most ever on destroyer) in three quintuple launchers. Experimental high-pressure turbines. Commissioned May 1943. Sunk November 11, 1944 (Battle off Ormoc Bay). Legendary for extreme speed and torpedo power.
Specifications
- Displacement (std)
- 2570 t
- Displacement (full)
- 3048 t
- Length
- 424.9 ft
- Beam
- 36.7 ft
- Crew
- 267
- Ships built
- 1 (15 more cancelled)
- Commissioned
- 1943
- Decommissioned
- None (sunk in action)
Performance
- Top speed
- 40.9 kn
- Range
- 6000 nm at 18 knots
Armament
- Main guns
- 6× 127mm/50 Type 3 (5-inch) - three twin turrets
- Torpedoes
- 15× 610mm (24-inch) Type 93 - three quintuple launchers
Armor & Systems
- Belt
- None (unarmored destroyer)
In-Game
- Tier
- T6
- Game power
- 191.77
- Research cost
- 151,882
- Credit cost
- 134,239
Notable
- Fastest destroyer ever built (40.9 knots achieved)
- Most torpedo tubes on destroyer (15× 24-inch)
- Experimental high-pressure turbines
- Only ship of planned 16-ship class completed