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Sakura

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
櫻 [Sakura]			Maizuru K K	3.1911	20.12.1911	5.1912	stricken 1931
橘 [Tachibana]			Maizuru K K	4.1911	27.1.1912	6.1912	stricken 1931

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	605
Displacement full, t	830
Length, m	79.2 pp 83.6 oa
Breadth, m	7.30
Draught, m	2.20
No of shafts	3
Machinery	3 4-cyl VTE, 5 Kampon boilers
Power, h. p.	9500
Max speed, kts	30
Fuel, t	coal 228 + oil 30
Endurance, nm(kts)	2400(15)
Armament	1 x 1 - 120/40 41-shiki, 4 x 1 - 76/40 41-shiki, 2 x 2 - 450 TT
Complement	92

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Project history

First destroyers, designed in Japan. First Japanese 2nd class destroyers created as alternative to powerful but very expensive Umikaze class ships. The idea has justified itself: despite modest battle characteristics Sakura became a prototype of the largest series of destroyers built in Japan in days of First World War (Kaba and Algerien classes). 

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.