Maritime History

Japanese destroyer Urakaze (1915)

Urakaze (浦風; "Bay Wind") was the lead ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy′s Urakaze-class destroyers. Completed in 1915, she served during World War I, followed by service on the Yangtze in China during the 1920s and 1930s. She was the only unit of her class to enter Japanese service, the Japanese having sold her only sister ship, Kawakaze, to Italy while Kawakaze was under construction. Urakaze also was the last Japanese destroyer built in a foreign shipyard to enter service in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Stricken in 1936, she thereafter was used for training until she was sunk during World War II in an Allied air raid in 1945. She was refloated and scrapped in 1948.

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• ▸Hurricane Betsy
• ▸Eta Virginis
• ▸Effects of Hurricane Wilma in Florida

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