Career
Name:	Maikaze
Ordered:	1939
Laid down:	22 April 1940
Launched:	15 March 1941
Commissioned:	15 July 1941
Struck:	31 March 1944
Fate:	Sunk in action, 17 February 1944
General characteristics
Class and type:	Kagero-class destroyer
Displacement:	2,490 long tons (2,530 t)
Length:	118.5 m (388 ft 9 in)
Beam:	10.8 m (35 ft 5 in)
Draft:	3.8 m (12 ft 6 in)
Speed:	35 knots (40 mph/65 km/h)
Complement:	239
Armament:	• 6 × 5 in (130 mm)/50 caliber DP guns • up to 28 × 25 mm AA guns • up to 4 × 13 mm AA guns • 8 × 24 in (610 mm) torpedo tubes • 36 depth charges

Maikaze (舞風, ^? "Whirlwind") was a Kagero-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

On 17 February 1944, during the Allied attack on Truk, Maikaze, the cruiser Katori, and the auxiliary cruiser Akagi Maru were sunk by gunfire from the cruisers USS Minneapolis and USS New Orleans 40 miles (75 km) northwest of Truk (07°45′N 151°20′E / 7.75, 151.333). The ship went down with loss of all hands.

Commanding Officers

• Chief Equipping Officer - Cmdr. Seiji Nakasugi - 10 April 1941 - 15 July 1941
• Cmdr. Seiji Nakasugi - 15 July 1941 - 22 June 1943
• Lt. Cmdr. Tsutomu Hagio - 22 June 1943 - 17 February 1944 (KIA)

See also

• List of World War II ships
• List of ships of the Japanese Navy

External links

• CombinedFleet.com: Kagero-class destroyers
• CombinedFleet.com: Maikaze history

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