日本海军驱逐舰

　　——岛风号

　　排水量2500吨,航速39节,装127mm双装炮3门,机枪6挺,五联装鱼雷管3座.只有岛风1艘.1943年竣工.是出于设计40节高速驱逐舰的目的建成的实验舰.用于鱼雷攻击高速突击战,防空反潜能力有所欠缺.

　　岛风号是太平洋战争后期，日本海军开发出的高速驱逐舰。

　　One word sums up this magnificent vessel: power. She had a top speed of almost 40 knots (that's really moving, people), 6 x 5" guns, and a main torpedo battery of 15 (count 'em) 24" tubes. She was, in my opinion, the most powerful destroyer of the war -- the superb U.S. Allen Sumner had comparable gun power and better fire control, and the French Mogadors had the same speed and superior 8 x 5.5" gunpower (not to mention almost 1,000 tons of full load displacement -- nearly a light cruiser), but neither of these classes had the kind of torpedo battery capable of scuppering an entire squadron of opponents at a crack. Of course, because of her outsized powerplant she was far too expensive to be built in any sort of quantity (Japan was losing the war big-time by the time she was launched), and her sixteen sister ships were never laid down. What a pity.

　　The SHIMAKAZE was planned and built as the experimental prototype of a new class of heavy fleet destroyer, designated "Type C." Sixteen other units were ordered but later cancelled due to more pressing wartime needs. Though never repeated, SHIMAKAZE was a successful design, combining large size (some 25 feet longer than YUGUMO) and heavy torpedo armament (three quintuple sets of 24" tubes, the most powerful such broadside ever mounted on a Japanese destroyer) with a 40-knot top speed. The latter was thanks to new high-pressure, high-temperature boilers which developed nearly 80,000 shaft horsepower and would have propelled all future Japanese destroyer designs, had circumstances permitted their construction.

　　All experimental projects were set aside at the beginning of the war in favor of more urgent work, so SHIMAKAZE, though laid down in July of 1941, was not completed until the spring of 1943. The delays in her construction did, however, enable her to be fitted with the very latest equipment, and SHIMAKAZE was one of the first Imperial warships to mount radar when completed.

　　因为同时代的日本海军没有一艘驱逐舰能匹敌他的性能，岛风号未编入任何驱逐舰队，但曾多次编入舰队参加海战，直到1944年被美军击沉在菲律宾海域。

　　完成年代 1943年

　　尺寸 413'4" x 36'9" x 13'7"

　　排 水 量 2,567吨

　　主炮 6 x 5"/50 DP,

　　鱼雷 15 x 24" TT, 18 DCs

　　高炮 up to 28 x 25mm AA, up to 4 x 13mm AA,

　　续 航 力 1,400里@30节

　　舰员 267人

　　最大航速 39节

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