Japanese destroyer Minekaze

	Minekaze at Yokosuka, 30 August 1932
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Minekaze
Ordered	1917 Fiscal Year
Builder	Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Laid down	20 April 1918
Launched	8 February 1919
Completed	29 May 1920
Stricken	31 March 1944
Fate	Sunk on 10 February 1944
General characteristics
Class & type	Minekaze-class destroyer
Displacement	1,366 t (1,344 long tons) (normal); 1,676 t (1,650 long tons) (deep load);
Length	97.5 m (319 ft 11 in) (pp); 102.5 m (336 ft 3 in) (o/a);
Beam	9.04 m (29 ft 8 in)
Draft	2.9 m (9 ft 6 in)
Installed power	38,500 shp (28,700 kW); 4 × Kampon water-tube boilers;
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 × Kampon geared steam turbines
Speed	39 knots (72 km/h; 45 mph)
Range	3,600 nmi (6,700 km; 4,100 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement	148
Armament	4 × single 12 cm (4.7 in) Type 3 guns; 3 × twin 53.3 cm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes; 20 × mines;
Service record
Operations	Second Sino-Japanese War; Pacific War;

The Japanese destroyer Minekaze (峯風, Summit Wind) was the lead ship of the Minekaze-class destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the late 1910s. The ship served in the Second Sino-Japanese War during the 1930s and spent the Pacific War on escort duties in Japanese waters and the East China Sea. She was sunk by an American submarine in early 1944 near Formosa.