Japanese destroyer Sakura (1911)
Sakura was a Sakura-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy, built under the 1910 Programme as a 2nd Class destroyer.
 Destroyer Sakura at Sasebo, 1918 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Name: | Sakura |
| Builder: | Maizuru Navy Dockyard |
| Laid down: | March 1911 |
| Launched: | 20 December 1911 |
| Commissioned: | 21 May 1912 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1933 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Sakura-class destroyer |
| Displacement: |
|
| Length: | 83.6 m (274 ft) |
| Beam: | 7.3 m (24 ft) |
| Draught: | 2.2 m (7.2 ft) |
| Propulsion: | reciprocating engines, 9,500 ihp (7,100 kW) |
| Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
| Range: | 2,400 nautical miles (4,400 km; 2,800 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 92 |
| Armament: |
|
Design
Sakura and her sister ship Tachibana were at first planned to be large ocean-going vessels however due to financial problems they were redesigned to a smaller type. Unlike the preceding Umikaze class, which was powered by Parsons turbines, Tachibana was installed with vertical expansion engines.
Service
The ship, built at the Maizuru Naval Arsenal, was launched in 1911, completed in 1912, and entered service shortly afterward. After 20 years of service, Sakura was decommissioned in 1932 and scrapped in 1933.[1]
gollark: The whole blockchain thing is a clever mechanism to low-trust-ly synchronize data, in this case a transaction log.
gollark: I don't want to *have* to arbitrarily trust people. This is why I do things like "TLS" and "not giving everyone my SSH keys".
gollark: ????
gollark: It would be possible, although stupid, to make a cryptocurrency where new blocks can only be issued by GTech™ bee cuboids using a private signing key, although this may break some of the security incentives.
gollark: This is just a feature of proof of work, not all cryptocurrency. Not that there are good alternatives right now.
References
- Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1922–1946
- "IJN Sakura Class Destroyers". GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.