Japanese destroyer Take (1919)

The Japanese destroyer Take (竹) was one of 21 Momi-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1910s. She was decommissioned in 1940 before being recommissioned as a training ship. She was finally scuttled as a breakwater at the Port of Akita on the Sea of Japan coast of Honshu, Japan, in 1948.

For other ships with the same name, see Japanese destroyer Take.
Sister ship Kuri at anchor, 1937
History
Empire of Japan
NameTake
BuilderKawasaki Shipyards, Kobe, Japan
Laid down2 December 1918
Launched26 August 1919
Stricken1 February 1940
RecommissionedUnknown date
FateScuttled as breakwater 1948
General characteristics as built
TypeMomi-class destroyer
Displacement
  • 850 long tons (864 t) (normal)
  • 1,020 long tons (1,036 t) (deep load)
Length
  • 275 ft (83.8 m) (pp)
  • 280 ft (85.3 m) (o/a)
Beam26 ft (7.9 m)
Draft8 ft (2.4 m)
Installed power
  • 3 × Kampon water-tube boilers
  • 21,500 shp (16,000 kW)
Propulsion2 shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
Speed36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range3,000 nmi (5,600 km; 3,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement110
Armament
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