• Thumbnail for Japanese destroyer Hamakaze (1940)
    Hamakaze (浜風, "Beach Wind") was one of 19 Kagerō-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during the 1930s. The Kagerō class was an enlarged...
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  • scrapped in 1935 Japanese destroyer Hamakaze (1940), an Imperial Japanese Navy Kagerō-class destroyer launched in 1940 and sunk in 1945 This article includes...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-103 (1940)
    DeSchiMAG AG Weser in Bremen as yard number 966. She was launched on 12 April 1940 and commissioned on 5 July under the command of Korvettenkapitän Victor Schütze...
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    Isokaze and Hamakaze received seven single mounts, whereas Yukikaze received 14 single mounts and four Type 93 13 mm machine guns. Hamakaze became the...
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  • 28 March 1940, in the shipyard of Bremer Vulkan in the port city of Bremen-Vegesack as yard number 6. U-78 was launched on 7 December 1940 and formally...
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  • Thumbnail for Japanese destroyer Isokaze (1939)
    division alongside her sistership Urakaze, with the destroyers Tanikaze and Hamakaze becoming eventual additions. Throughout most of 1941, Isokaze transitioned...
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  • Thumbnail for Japanese destroyer Yukikaze (1939)
    was the lead ship in a flotilla of destroyers, leading the destroyers Hamakaze, Kiyonami, and Yūgure. The four destroyers operated alongside the Japanese...
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  • Thumbnail for German cruiser Deutschland
    the Reichsmarine, in February 1940 the Germans reclassified the remaining two ships of this class as heavy cruisers. In 1940, she was renamed Lützow, after...
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  • Thumbnail for Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūhō
    her were nine empty oil tankers bound for Singapore, and the destroyers Hamakaze, Isokaze, Yukikaze, Shigure and Hatakaze. Upon reaching Formosa and unloading...
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  • Thumbnail for Operation Ten-Go
    the first attack wave, destroyers Hamakaze and Suzutsuki were heavily damaged and taken out of the battle. Hamakaze sank later. Between 13:20 and 14:15...
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  • Thumbnail for Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano
    portable pumps on board. The escorting destroyers, Isokaze, Yukikaze and Hamakaze, had just returned from the Battle of Leyte Gulf and required more than...
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    - Tottori, Kurayoshi) via the Chizu Express Chizu Line Limited express Hamakaze (Osaka - Kasumi, Hamasaka, Tottori) via the Bantan Line for the north area...
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    MV Goya (category 1940 ships)
    sunk with a massive loss of life near the end of World War II. Completed in 1940 for the Johan Ludwig Mowinckel Rederi company, the ship was named after Spanish...
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  • Thumbnail for HNoMS Olav Tryggvason
    She served in the Royal Norwegian Navy until captured by the Germans in 1940. The Germans renamed her first Albatros II, and a few days later Brummer...
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  • Thumbnail for Akiyama Teruo
    subsequently commanded the destroyers Yūgure, Tachibana, Kashiwa, Sawarabi, Hamakaze and Murakumo in the 10-year period from 1924 to 1934. Promoted to captain...
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  • Thumbnail for Japanese destroyer Suzutsuki (1942)
    heavy damage, but Yamato and five escorts – Yahagi, Asashimo, Kasumi, Hamakaze and Isokaze – were all sunk with heavy losses of life. Some of the survivors...
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    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 22 May 1935. S-16 was recommissioned on 2 December 1940. Following voyages to Bermuda and the Panama Canal Zone, she operated at...
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  • Thumbnail for Jinichi Kusaka
    on the cruiser Asama, followed by the battleship Kashima and destroyer Hamakaze, but was not on any combat missions. After the end of the war, he attended...
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  • battleship Yamato, the light cruiser Yahagi and eight destroyers; Isokaze, Hamakaze, Yukikaze, Asashimo, Kasumi, Hatsushimo, Fuyutsuki and Suzutsuki, was assembled...
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  • cancelled. (Warabi lost in August 1927; Momi, Kaya and Nashi scrapped by 1940, leaving 17 which served in the Pacific War) The total of 8 excludes 5 cancelled...
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  • Thumbnail for German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin
    28 April 1940, Admiral Erich Raeder proposed halting all work on Graf Zeppelin, arguing that even if she was commissioned by the end of 1940, final installation...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-108 (1940)
    Weser in Bremen as yard number 971 on 27 December 1938, launched on 15 July 1940 and commissioned on 22 October under Korvettenkapitän Klaus Scholtz. Her...
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  • Thumbnail for German cruiser Admiral Scheer
    classified as an armored ship (Panzerschiff) by the Reichsmarine, in February 1940 the Germans reclassified the remaining two ships of this class as heavy cruisers...
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    Tenryū and Tatsuta, as well as three destroyers, Urakaze, Tanikaze and Hamakaze, in concert with the transports, Nankai Maru and Kinai Maru, and the submarine...
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  • Thumbnail for Oka Sho
    Lady 1940 - Tairei 1941 - Brand Sol 1942 - Banner Goal 1943 - Miss Theft 1944 - Yamaiwai 1945 - no race 1946 - no race 1947 - Browny 1948 - Hamakaze 1949...
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  • Thumbnail for USS S-17
    1935 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. S-17 was recommissioned on 16 December 1940. After voyages to Bermuda, S-17 operated in the Panama Canal area from December...
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  • Thumbnail for SS Vale
    all four of Vale's sister ships had been sunk. Mines sank Brage in May 1940; Widar in March 1941; and Sabine Howaldt in May 1944. An RAAF Hampden aircraft...
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  • Thumbnail for Italian aircraft carrier Aquila
    primarily used as an experimental catapult ship for most of her career. By 1940, she was designated an aircraft transport/training ship and functioned as...
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  • Hatsukaze | Yukikaze | Amatsukaze | Tokitsukaze | Urakaze | Isokaze | Hamakaze | Tanikaze | Nowaki | Arashi | Hagikaze | Maikaze | Akigumo 2,000 tonnes...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Mannert L. Abele
    lieutenant commander on 1 December 1940. Receiving orders to USS S-31, Abele commanded that boat from August 1940 to November 1941, before fitting out...
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