Super Shimakaze-class destroyer

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Class overview
Name	Super Shimakaze class
Operators	Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded by	Shimakaze
Succeeded by	Super Akizuki
Planned	19 (1942)
Cancelled	19 (1942)
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	2,567 tons standard; 3,048 tons full load
Length	413 ft 5 in (126.01 m) (overall)
Beam	36 ft 9 in (11.20 m)
Draught	13 ft 7 in (4.14 m)
Depth	23 ft 4 in (7.11 m)
Propulsion	3 × Kampon water tube boilers, 2 × Kampon geared turbines, 2 shafts, 75,000 shp (56 MW)
Speed	39.0 kn (72.2 km/h)
Range	6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h)
Armament	6 × 127 mm (5.0 in)/50 cal DP guns some Type 96 25 mm AA guns 15 × 610 mm Type 93 torpedoes, some depth charges

The Super Shimakaze-class destroyers (超島風型駆逐艦, Chō-Shimakaze kata kuchiku-kan) were a projected class of destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), developed during the Second World War. The intention was to develop a mass-production destroyer based on the experimental destroyer Shimakaze. The IJN Fleet Command gave them the project number V6. However, the project was cancelled with none of the proposed ships being completed, because the IJN was heavily crippled at Midway in June 1942.

Ships in class[]

Bibliography[]

• Rekishi Gunzō, History of Pacific War Vol.23 Akizuki class destroyers, Gakken (Japan), 1999, ISBN 4-05-602063-9
• Collection of writings by Sizuo Fukui Vol.5, Stories of Japanese Destroyers, Kōjinsha (Japan) 1993, ISBN 4-7698-0611-6

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