Japanese destroyer Nokaze

	Nokaze in February 1922
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Nokaze
Ordered	1918 fiscal year
Builder	Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down	16 April 1921
Launched	1 October 1921
Commissioned	31 March 1922
Stricken	10 April 1945
Fate	Torpedoed and sunk by USS Pargo, 20 February 1945
General characteristics
Class and type	improved Minekaze-class destroyer
Displacement	1,215 long tons (1,234 t) normal,; 1,650 long tons (1,680 t) full load;
Length	97.5 m (320 ft) pp,; 102.6 m (337 ft) overall;
Beam	8.9 m (29 ft)
Draught	2.9 m (9.5 ft)
Propulsion	2-shaft Mitsubishi-Parsons geared turbines, 4 boilers 38,500 ihp (28,700 kW)
Speed	39 knots (72 km/h)
Range	3,600 nautical miles (6,700 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement	148
Armament	4 × Type 3 120 mm 45 caliber naval gun; 6 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes; 2 × 7.7 mm machine guns; 16 × naval mines;
Service record
Operations:	Second Sino-Japanese War; Pacific War;

Nokaze (野風, Field Wind) was the lead ship of the Nokaze sub-class, an improvement to the Minekaze-class 1st class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. Advanced for their time, these ships served as first-line destroyers through the 1930s, but were considered obsolescent by the start of the Pacific War.

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