Super Shimakaze-class destroyer

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 on June 1942.

For other ships with the same name, see Japanese destroyer Shimakaze.

Class overview
Name:	Super Shimakaze class
Operators:	Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded by:	Shimakaze
Planned:	16 (1942)
Cancelled:	16 (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

Ships in class

Ship	Ship #	Note
16 destroyers	733 to 748	Cancelled and re-planned to 7 of the Super Akizuki class (Ships # 5077-5083) on 30 June 1942

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