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===Important Information===
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===Auxiliary Requirements===
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|Improvement=[[61cm Quintuple (Oxygen) Torpedo Mount]], [[New Model High Temperature High Pressure Boiler]], [[Prototype 61cm Sextuple (Oxygen) Torpedo Mount]]
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==Drop Locations==
 
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* She was launched on the 18th of July 1942.
 
* She was launched on the 18th of July 1942.
 
* Sunk in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ormoc_Bay Battle of Ormoc Bay] near [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu,_Philippines Cebu, Philippines], on the 11th of November 1944.
 
* Sunk in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ormoc_Bay Battle of Ormoc Bay] near [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu,_Philippines Cebu, Philippines], on the 11th of November 1944.
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* Wreck located by RV ''Petrel'' on 1 December 2017. She lies a mangled wreck in 218 m (715 ft) of water, but is easily identified by her three quintuple torpedo launchers.
    
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===Historical Note===
 
===Historical Note===
Shimakaze was planned and built as the experimental prototype of a new class of heavy destroyers, designated "Type C" (丙型駆逐艦). Sixteen other units were ordered but later canceled due to more pressing wartime needs. Though never repeated, she was a successful design, combining large size (some 25 feet longer than ''Yuugumo''-class), firepower (six 5" guns in new Type D turrets), and heavy torpedo armament (three quintuple sets of 24" tubes, the most powerful such broadside ever mounted on a Japanese destroyer) with a 40-knot top speed. The latter was thanks to new high-pressure, high-temperature boilers able to generate nearly 80,000 shaft horsepower and would have propelled all future Japanese destroyer designs, had circumstances permitted their construction.
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Shimakaze was planned and built as the experimental prototype of a new class of heavy destroyers, designated "Type C" (丙型駆逐艦). Sixteen other units were ordered but later canceled due to more pressing wartime needs. Though never repeated, she was a successful design, combining large size (some 8 m (25 ft) longer than ''Yuugumo''-class), firepower (six 5" guns in new Type D turrets), and heavy torpedo armament (three quintuple sets of 24" tubes, the most powerful such broadside ever mounted on a Japanese destroyer) with a 40-knot top speed. The latter was thanks to new high-pressure, high-temperature boilers able to generate nearly 80,000 shaft horsepower and would have propelled all future Japanese destroyer designs, had circumstances permitted their construction.
    
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
 
*[[wikipedia:Japanese_destroyer_Shimakaze_(1942)|Wikipedia entry on destroyer Shimakaze]]
 
*[[wikipedia:Japanese_destroyer_Shimakaze_(1942)|Wikipedia entry on destroyer Shimakaze]]
 
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