Japanese destroyer Take (1919)


The Japanese destroyer Take was one of 21 s built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1910s. She was decommissioned in 1940 before being recommissioned as a training ship. She was finally scuttled as a breakwater at the Port of Akita on the Sea of Japan coast of Honshu, Japan, in 1948.

Design and description

The Momi class was designed with higher speed and better seakeeping than the preceding second-class destroyers. The ships had an overall length of and were between perpendiculars. They had a beam of, and a mean draft of. The Momi-class ships displaced at standard load and at deep load. Take was powered by two Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft using steam provided by three Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were designed to produce to give the ships a speed of. The ships carried a maximum of of fuel oil which gave them a range of at. Their crew consisted of 110 officers and crewmen.
The main armament of the Momi-class ships consisted of three Type 3 guns in single mounts; one gun forward of the well deck, one between the two funnels, and the last gun atop the aft superstructure. The guns were numbered '1' to '3' from front to rear. The ships carried two above-water twin sets of torpedo tubes; one mount was in the well deck between the forward superstructure and the bow gun and the other between the aft funnel and aft superstructure.

Construction and career

Take, built at the Kawasaki Shipyards in Kobe, Japan, was launched on 26 August 1919 and completed on 25 December 1919. She was stricken from the Navy List on 1 February 1940 before being recommissioned as a training ship. she was finally scuttled as a breakwater at the Port of Akita on the Sea of Japan coast of Honshu, Japan, in 1948.