Japanese destroyer Shimakaze (1920)

	Shimakaze in 1922
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Shimakaze
Ordered	1918 fiscal year
Builder	Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down	5 September 1919
Launched	31 March 1920
Completed	15 November 1920
Renamed	Patrol Boat No.1 1940
Stricken	10 February 1943
Fate	Sunk by USS Guardfish, 12 January 1943
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Minekaze-class destroyer
Displacement	1,366 t (1,344 long tons) (normal); 1,676 t (1,650 long tons) (deep load);
Length	97.5 m (319 ft 11 in) (pp); 102.5 m (336 ft 3 in) (o/a);
Beam	9.04 m (29 ft 8 in)
Draft	2.9 m (9 ft 6 in)
Installed power	38,500 shp (28,700 kW); 4 × Kampon water-tube boilers;
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 × Kampon geared steam turbines
Speed	39 knots (72 km/h; 45 mph)
Range	3,600 nmi (6,700 km; 4,100 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement	148
Armament	4 × single 12 cm (4.7 in) Type 3 guns; 3 × twin 53.3 cm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes; 20 × mines;
General characteristics as Patrol Boat No. 1
Class and type	Patrol Boat No. 1
Displacement	1,270 long tons (1,290 t) normal; 1,700 long tons (1,700 t) full load;
Installed power	19,250 shp (14,350 kW); 2 boilers
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Armament	2 × single Type 3 120 mm (4.7 in)/45 guns; 10 × 25 mm (0.98 in) Type 96 AA guns; 1 × twin 53.3 cm torpedo tubes; 16 × depth charges;

The Japanese destroyer Shimakaze (島風, Island Wind) was one of 15 Minekaze-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1910s. The ship was converted into a patrol boat in 1940 and then into a destroyer transport the next year. After the start of the Pacific War, she participated in the Philippines Campaign in late 1941, the Dutch East Indies campaign in early 1942 and played a minor role in the Battle of Midway in mid-1942 before she was sunk by an American submarine in early 1943.

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