page_title: Japanese destroyer Yūkaze
hierarchical_section_title: Japanese destroyer Yūkaze
caption_attribution_description: Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Yukaze on trials off Nagasaki.
context_page_description: Yūkaze was a Minekaze-class destroyer, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy immediately following World War I. Advanced for their time, these ships served as first-line destroyers through the 1930s, but were considered obsolescent by the start of the Pacific War.
context_section_description: Yūkaze (夕風, Evening Wind) was a Minekaze-class destroyer, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy immediately following World War I. Advanced for their time, these ships served as first-line destroyers through the 1930s, but were considered obsolescent by the start of the Pacific War.
caption: Yūkaze commissioning at Nagasaki, 1921
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