I don't know what to say about this ship
 

Yukikaze was the eight ship of the Kagero-class destroyer, commissioned 20 January 1940

November 12 1942, she escorted Hiei, Hiei was heavily damaged and scuttled

March 1 1943, Yukikaze was used to escort an army convoy，she was undamaged, but the other 4 destroyers and 7 transports in the convoy was destroyed

July 12 1943，Battle of Kula Gulf，Because the torpedo was set to run too deep, she was unharmed, but the flagship of the fleet behind her was destroyed by the torpedo

June 19 1944 ,Battle of the Philippine Sea, the IJN lost 3 carriers, 600 planes, with 2 battleships damaged. the Yukikaze was completely unharmed.

October 1944，battle of Leyte Gulf. Yukikaze was escorting the Musashi. Musashi and 2 more battleships were lost, but the Yukikaze was unharmed

November 11 1944, she was escorting the Kongo, Kongo was sunk, while Yukikaze was unharmed.

November 28 1944, she was escorting the Shinano, the Shinano was sunk by the USS Archerfish.


April 7 1945, Yukikaze escorted the Yamato, the rest of the fleet was sunk or damaged, but not the Yukikaze

After that, Yukikaze stayed in harbor, never to leave again.

Her harbor was bombed by the Americans many times, Yukikaze was only hit by one bomb, and it was a dud.
Once on her way out of harbor, Yukikaze and another destroyer wandered into a mine field. Her companion was sunk, she struck a dud.

august, 1945，she was the last surviving destroyer of the 82 destroyers the IJN had in 1941.

during the whole war, she sailed 200 thousand kilometers, yet she only suffered 10 casualties, all 5 of her captains died from natural causes.

After the war, she was commissioned into the republic of China navy. The day she was commissioned the communists launched a large scale counter attack, turning the tide of the war.

1966, she was decommissioned.

December 18 1971, she was broken up, the same day Chiang Kai-shek was involved in a car accident.

at the end of 1971, The remains of Yukikaze were sent back to Japan. the following year, the Japanese economy collapsed.

She's quite a famous vessel in Japan, 'the lucky destroyer' they call her. Looking at that, it's easy to understand why. :yep:

Wow, i would have said invincible. Certainly until the decommissioning, then it's a case of cursed!

Edit:
Nice-looking ship:
http://i51.tinypic.com/x6ht0p.jpg

Quite a charmed life considering what happened to her peer group but eventually ended up like the rest.

Reminds me a little bit of the Warspite, how she wouldn't go quietly into the night. Terrible shame they didn't keep her.

Maybe lucky for her and any who fought her! :o

I believe in no such thing as luck.

Gimme a list of the people who stayed onboard her throughout the world war. Must have not been the captain. :DL

IIRC Yukikaze was the only ship of the 19 Kagero-class destroyers to survive the war as well.

EDIT: Ah, missed this

Not true, though. Ushio and a few older destroyers survived the war as well.

You may well be right but I was under the impression only two survived.

http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com...termidway.aspx

Yet Wiki reads off a long list :hmmm:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanes..._II_destroyers

Your probably right, it could have gotten lost in translation

Either way, I'd have scrapped her long before that, considering how many (Much more valuable) ships she was supposed to protect were sunk under her. Lucky, perhaps, but terribly ineffective. :O:

She sucked the luck away from others:O: