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Name | Uzuki |
Builder | Kawasaki Shipyards, Kobe |
Launched | 20 September 1906 |
Completed | 6 March 1907 |
Decommissioned | 1 December 1924 |
Reclassified | As a radio-controlled target ship, January 1929 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Kamikaze-class destroyer |
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Beam | 21 ft 7 in (6.6 m) |
Draught | 6 ft (1.8 m) |
Installed power | 4 boilers; 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW) |
Propulsion | 2 shafts; 2 triple-expansion steam engines |
Speed | 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph) |
Range | 1,200 nmi (2,200 km; 1,400 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 70 |
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Uzuki (卯月) ("Month of Deutzia") was one of 32 Kamikaze-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the first decade of the 20th century.
The Kamikaze-class destroyers were improved versions of the preceding Harusame class.[1] They displaced 381 long tons (387 t) at normal load and 450 long tons (460 t) at deep load. The ships had a length between perpendiculars of 227 feet (69.2 m) and an overall length of 234 feet (71.3 m), a beam of 21 feet 7 inches (6.6 m) and a draught of 6 feet (1.8 m). The Kamikazes were powered by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft using steam produced by four Kampon water-tube boilers. The engines produced a total of 6,000 indicated horsepower (4,500 kW) that gave the ships a maximum speed of 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph). They carried a maximum of 100 long tons (102 t) of coal[2] which gave them a range of 1,500 nautical miles (2,800 km; 1,700 mi) at a speed of 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph). Their crew consisted of 70 officers and ratings.[3]
The main armament of the Kamikaze-class ships consisted of two 40-calibre quick-firing (QF) three-inch (76 mm) 12 cwt guns[Note 1] on single mounts; the forward gun was located on superstructure, but the aft gun was at the stern. Four 28-calibre QF three-inch 8 cwt guns on single mounts were positioned abreast the superstructure, two in each broadside. The ships were also armed with two single rotating mounts[1][3] for 450-millimetre (17.7 in)[4] torpedoes between the superstructure and the stern gun.[1]
Uzuki was launched at Kawasaki's shipyard in Kobe on 20 September 1906[1] and completed on 6 March 1907. The ship saw service in World War I and participated in the Siberian Expedition. She was decommissioned on 1 December 1924 and was then converted into a radio-controlled target ship in January 1929.[5]
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