Overview and identity
Yukikaze is documented through its known service identities, including any recorded transfers, renamings, or conversions.
Tan Yang is identified through service with Republic of China Navy and membership in Kagerō class. Its history belongs to the interwar period and the Second World War and to the wider development of destroyers and torpedo combatants. These identity checks separate the vessel from other ships that may have carried the same or a similar name.
Construction and class context
Tan Yang was built by Sasebo Naval Arsenal. The documented chronology records laid down 1938-08, launched 1939-03-24, and completed 1940-01. These dates place the vessel within the construction sequence of Kagerō class and provide fixed points for distinguishing original features from later alterations.
The Kagerō class combined six 127 mm guns with two quadruple 610 mm torpedo mounts and long cruising range. The design followed Japan’s withdrawal from treaty limits and restored the large fleet-destroyer characteristics sought by the Imperial Japanese Navy. This class-level history explains the common requirement and design; the present article remains focused on evidence that can be attached specifically to Tan Yang.
Service history
The documented final disposition was damaged 30.7.1945; to China 7.1947 (Tan Yang).
The operating context of Kagerō class included fleet screening and torpedo attack. That context explains why the ship was built, but it is not treated as proof that Tan Yang participated in an undocumented deployment or action. Ship-specific operations require dated orders, logs, official histories, or equivalent evidence.
Configuration and change
As a member of Kagerō class, Tan Yang shared a design baseline associated with fleet destroyer and features such as fleet destroyer, long lance torpedoes, and steam-turbine propulsion. The baseline is useful for understanding the vessel’s intended capabilities, but it does not establish that every weapon, sensor, boat, aircraft, or machinery arrangement remained aboard throughout the ship’s career.
Any dated configuration for Tan Yang must distinguish original construction from later refits, wartime additions, repair work, transfers, and changes in mission. Where the reviewed evidence provides only class-level data, this profile presents it as context and avoids converting it into a permanent ship-specific specification.
Later service and disposition
The final status recorded for Tan Yang is transferred on 1945-07-30.
damaged 30.7.1945; to China 7.1947 (Tan Yang).
Historical significance and evidence
Tan Yang provides an individual case within the history of Kagerō class. Its value lies in connecting one documented hull, construction chronology, service identity, and outcome to the broader design and operational history of the class.
The class was a major prewar Japanese fleet-destroyer design. For Tan Yang, historical significance should remain ship-specific: the article must show what this vessel did, how it changed, and how its career differed from other members of Kagerō class, rather than repeating the class article as if every ship shared one service history.
The evidence used for Tan Yang includes Navypedia, KAGERO destroyers (1939–1941) and Robert Gardiner (ed.), Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1922–1946, Conway Maritime Press, 1980. These sources support the chronology and identification presented here; where they do not establish a ship-specific event or configuration, the profile says so rather than borrowing details from another vessel.
Class relationship
This ship is recorded as a member of Kagerō class. Shared design history belongs on the class page; this page concentrates on the individual hull where evidence is available.
Sources and further reading
- KAGERO destroyers (1939–1941) ↗Navypedia · accessed 2026-09-18
- Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1922–1946Conway Maritime Press