Kamikaze-class destroyer (1905)

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Japanese destroyer Ushio at Vladivostok 1920
Class overview
Name	Kamikaze class
Operators	Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded by	Harusame class
Succeeded by	Umikaze class
In commission	16 August 1905 – 1 April 1928
Completed	32
Lost	2
Retired	30
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	381 long tons (387 t) normal, 450 long tons (457 t)
Length	69.2 m (227 ft) pp, 72 m (236 ft)
Beam	6.57 m (21.6 ft)
Draught	1.8 m (5.9 ft)
Propulsion	2-shaft reciprocating, 4 coal-fired boilers, 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW)
Speed	29 knots (54 km/h)
Range	850 nmi (1,570 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h)
Complement	70
Armament	2 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval guns 4 × QF 12 pounder 8 cwt naval guns 2 × 18-inch (457 mm) torpedoes

The Kamikaze-class destroyers (神風型駆逐艦, Kamikaze-gata kuchikukan, "divine wind") were a class of thirty-two torpedo boat destroyers (TBDs) of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Kamikaze class of destroyers were the first destroyers to be mass-produced in Japan. The class is also sometimes referred to as the Asakaze class.^[1] This class of destroyer should not be confused with the later Kamikaze-class destroyers built in 1922, which participated in the Pacific War.