Shimakaze underway.
History
Empire of Japan
Name:	Shimakaze (島風?) (Island Wind)
Builder:	Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down:	8 August 1941
Launched:	18 July 1942
Commissioned:	10 May 1943
Struck:	10 January 1945
Fate:	Sunk in the Battle of Ormoc Bay near Cebu, Philippines, 11 November 1944
General characteristics
Class and type:	none
Type:	Destroyer
Displacement:	2,570 long tons (2,610 t) (standard)[1] 3,300 long tons (3,400 t) (full load)[2]
Length:	129.5 m (424 ft 10 in) o/a 126 m (413 ft 5 in) w/l
Beam:	11.2 m (36 ft 9 in)
Draft:	4.15 m (13 ft 7 in)[3]
Installed power:	75,000 shp (56,000 kW)
Propulsion:	2 × Kampon impulse geared steam turbines 3 × Kampon water-tube boilers 2 × shafts
Speed:	40.9 kn (75.7 km/h; 47.1 mph)
Range:	6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement:	267 (May 1943)
Armament:	As Built: 6 × 127 mm (5 in)/50 cal12.7 cm/50 Type 3 dual-purpose guns (3x2) 6 × 25 mm (1 in) Type 96 25mm anti-aircraft guns (2x3)[4] 2 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) anti-aircraft machine guns (1x2) 15 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes (3x5) 18 depth charges Early 1944 Refit: 4 × 127 mm (5 in)/50 cal dual purpose guns (2x2)[5] 16 × 25 mm (1 in) anti-aircraft guns (4x3, 2x2) (increased in June to 28)[6] 15 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes (3x5) 36 depth charges

Shimakaze (島風^?) (Island Wind) was a one-off super-destroyer built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. She was armed with six 127 mm (5.0 in) dual-purpose guns and conventional anti-aircraft and anti-submarine weaponry. More importantly, she was the only Japanese destroyer to be armed with 15 torpedo tubes, each capable of firing the deadly 610 mm (24 in) Type 93 "Long Lance" torpedo. The ship was a testbed for an enormously powerful, high-temperature, high-pressure steam engine that was able to develop 79,240 shp (59,090 kW). This made her one of the fastest destroyers in the world: her designed speed was 39 kn (72 km/h; 45 mph), but on trials she made 40.9 kn (75.7 km/h; 47.1 mph).