What would you consider to be the worst Peacetime disaster/tragedy in RN and US history respectively? While you’ve said before you plan on doing a video on the Franklin Expedition, what about other Royal Navy excursions into the Artic and Antarctic? Perhaps even videos on the careers of the Likes of Crozier, John Ross and James Clarke Ross
At what point does speed usually start becoming impractical due to ships never going at such speeds/the speeds never making a difference compared with the downsides? (For multiple different types of ships)
Also, "This [convoy escort and troop evac] she did for about a year, before a refit added some more 25mm guns and a Type XIII air search radar, so she could at least see what her AA suite was inevitably going to miss coming from a longer distance."
During the battle of omrac bay shimakazes speed meant she was never hit by aerial bombs and torpedoes. Just machine guns but her thin skin meant that it put holes in her high pressure boilers eventually leading to their rupture and her destruction.
Those armor-piercing incendiaries from the .50s were Hell unleashed to a thin skinned ship like a supply ship or an escort vessel. Fighter sweeps before bomb and torpedo runs were found to lessen anti-aircraft fire, sometimes quite considerably, for them in their attacks. Imagine ten Hellcats strafing Shimakaze. Unbelievable. Hell on Earth for the crew.
“Mangled” is a bit of an understatement when describing the state of her wreck. Though to be fair, we now know how much damage her torpedoes could do to a ship.
Shimakaze was such a beautiful ship, same as with the other IJN DDs starting with Fubuki. I really wish we could have had just any one survive til today to be a museum ship...
@@David-il9xw So? As were the Nazis and the Soviets...and the British for that matter. Every country has it's share of atrocities. Doesn't change the fact I like historical figures like Nelson, or see ships like Bismarck as great feats of engineering. I can very well love IJN ships and condemn the acts of imperial Japan at the same time.
The ABC destroyer concept really seems to have had merit if implemented sooner and then evolved to compliment each other within tasks forces. One sees great potential for pairing the Akizuki class with the Shimakaze, the two types covering each other's deficiencies. Shimakaze brings the heavy anti-ship power with torpedoes while the Akizuki keeps away airpower and presents a dangerous opponent for enemy destroyers or escorts. Send Akizukis ahead to intercept enemy destroyers and airpower while the Shimakazes maneuver to get their torpedoes on the big ships, then use their own guns to cover the withdrawal of the Akizukis. I wonder if any IJN officers were thinking along these lines at some point, but the likelihood of finding such documentation is rather low, especially for this Gaijin.
Those engine ratings are a bit bonkers. To put it in a modern context, each of the 4 screws on a US supercarrier is rated for 70khp. The Shima, while displacing just 1/40th that of a Nimitz, has more than 1/4th the shaft horsepower.
Agreed, especially during the night battleship action against USS Washington and USS South Dakota. A single Long Lance could do heavy damage even against their torpedo protection. USS North Carolina stopped a Long Lance from a submarine and was knocked out of the war for nearly six months while a new bow was fitted.
@@robertf3479 After the North Carolina got hit - she increased speed and left the area. The hit was supposedly actually serious but she was not limited in her ability to perform. She did take a while to fix though. This was part of the most successful torpedo spread ever. It sank the Wasp., damaged the North Carolina and sank a destroyer - all the way across the fleet from where the torpedoes were fired. .,
Shimikaze proud: I'm designed to be fast and powerful, and I have enough firepower to sink a fleet. Me: And did you ever do, what you were designed for? Shimikaze sobbing: No Proceeds to sail over to a corner and cry.
Yah, kind of like Yamato; overpriced, impractically outfitted, worthless against the most devastating element of WW2 - Air Power - and ultimately accomplishes very little beyond getting sunk and failing Japanese missions.
@@d.olivergutierrez8690 And totally foreseeable; the vulnerability of torpedoes is the major reason why the Americans removed them from their ships. The Japanese ships typically jettisoned or fired their torpedoes during concerted air attacks - in random directions just to get them off the ship. This is one of the principal reasons why the Japanese favored night attacks (not because they were particularly "good" at it; not only is that a wild overstatement of actual history, but the Japanese didn't really acknowledge this "advantage" at the time because they hadn't met the Americans in surface battle at the time). Essentially, the Japanese couldn't use their torps if they were fired off or jettisoned, and this was more likely to happen if they were spotted by American aircraft during the day. And if they were spotted during the day, there was a good chance they would be attacked by American aircraft - and this made it much more likely that they would have to dump torpedoes to avoid detonation (the O2 torpedo fuel was EXTREMELY volatile, it wasn't that the Americans "couldn't" make one themselves, they fiddled around the the idea themselves ofc, but the drawbacks were too great in their risk-benefit judgment-analysis). The greatest Japanese Naval victory at the Battle of Savo Island is the epitome of this principle - Japan's greatest advantage at Guadalcanal was their torpedoes (at this point, the Zero was being bested by the Wildcat, the American Battleships were more than a match for their Japanese counterparts, the US Marines could best the Japanese Army on land, etc). The night battle and Japanese torpedo salvos at Savo Island crystallized this reality, which is why the Japanese always tried to repeat it...because it never would have occurred during the daytime, considering the Japanese forces would have DEFINITELY been scouted and attacked by Henderson Field and Carrier planes, resulting in the loss of Japanese torpedoes one way or another.
Decades ago I built Hasegawa's 1/700 Waterline Shimakaze. It was notable in that it was the only kit with a metal bottom I'd ever encountered, making her by far the heaviest if all my destroyer models. Until I was older I thought the 42 knot top speed listed in the instruction's brief history and overview to be a typo or propaganda.
I gotta admit, I got a chuckle when you mentioned the "last will" but... Because even if these guys had modern CIWS on that ship.... 300+ planes coming down on you isn't going to be a fun time
I don't know if someone has posted it here, but initially the model for Shimakaze in Warthunder had AA guns where her X turret was. This was fixed after a few days. Rumors went around that, the modelers for the ship used R/V Petrel pictures as a source and since they didn't see a turret where the X turret was, they assumed it had only AA guns, whereas in fact just before she was sunk, her X turret was already damaged and out of place (as shown in the pictures); it merely detached from the ship as she went under.
Pretty sure the rumour that her turret had been removed for more AA was a thing that goes back much further than the WT model not (originally, before release) having it. Those stories/sources are probably how the model ended up that way in the first place. Glad they fixed it. :)
@@petersouthernboy6327 I was thinking of all those long lance torpedoes hitting to water in the opening of the attack. That's got to cause some major headaches.
@@bigblue6917 the waters around Guadalcanal have quite a bit of background clutter (many islands in close proximity) and both sides had a great deal of difficulty distinguishing friend from foe. The 1942 Japanese destroyers were excellent as was their night vision optics and training. Wouldn’t have made a difference.
are we sure that 42 knots was the real speed or was that with no load out ? I've read 37 knots but who knows that could be a designed speed and designed speeds are often exceeded.
This is a ship that had its mission overtaken by the rise of aircraft carrier and RADAR guided weapons. Also what the Japanese didn't need was a destroyer that used as much fuel as a battleship.
A very interesting high performance design I wasn't aware of till now. The Wikipedia article says the full load displacement was about 3300 long tons and the LWL was over 400 feet (checking to make sure the dimensions Drach cited weren't LOA), so the proportions were close to ideal for speed. A comparison to the Fletcher is interesting: 2850 and 369 respectively, with "only" 60,000 HP, if I remember right. Yes, I believe the trials: 40 knots within reach! It would be interesting to see the profiles of these two designs superimposed on each other as an illustration of the similarities/differences.
Whenever Drachinifel posts a video involving ships that get put into games, the fans mention the in-jokes, but I'm surprised that YTPer's haven't crudely spliced the Kamchatka into an episode of TUGS yet.
@@observationsfromthebunker9639 Her pat lines are just too precious. Recently oathed her since her lines are just too cute to left over. Kinda regretted it after realizing that NJ will get her oath outfit tho... hope Shima is next.
Reading the names on the sides got me a couple times this video. I'm so used to it being written left to right, I often forget that it can go right to left, and was more common in those days.
Fun fact: "Backwards" names in Japanese aren't being written right-to-left, they're being written top-to-bottom, but on only one line. (Granted, it's functionally identical.)
@@limetom Yeah, I learned this recently myself, trying to ID a few ships. I suppose the English equivalent would be writing left-to-write, but only in one column: shi ma ka ze
This was the zenith of Japanese destroyer design and the Allies were lucky there was only one of them. Fubuki and Kagero class destroyers were 50 pounds of mean in a 10-pound can. Shimakaze was a monster. Imagine a line of six of them blazing around Savo Island at 40 knots launching giant, tight spreads of long lances. Yikes.
Fighting against one of these ships in Warships against a player that knows what they are doing, is one of the most terrifying experiences I’ve ever had. Thanks for the video in explaining how the ship fared in the actual war
As someone who mained Shima :D I loved having the entire enemy team channeling Kkamchatka. Only the first you know about torpedo boats is when your about to eat at least 10 torps. At that point the entire team makes the adventures of the 2ed Pacific squad look like a well executed voyage.
I think the Japanse really missed an important task of the destroyer. That is anti sub marine warfare. Very important when you are depended on naval supplies. Which showed during the late war.
One of your better vids. Was never a huge fan of most Japanese ships but this one is outstandingly beautiful. Had never heard of it before this vid. Thanks.
Bravo another excellent video!!! I would also like to thank you for choosing not to include commercials in your videos. There is nothing more aggravating then paying for services to not watch commercials, and then having to watch them anyways. Keep up the awesome work!!!
Heavy torpedo armament of this ship reminded me of a pair Kitakami and Oi cruisers with over twice more long lances. They got 40 tubes each. Maybe you should make z film about them?
Shimakaze:" Okay, here we go. Focus. Speed. I am speed. One winner, 175+ losers. I eat Destroyers for breakfast. Breakfast? Maybe I should have had breakfast? Battleships could be good for me. No, no, no, focus. Speed. Faster than fast, quicker than quick. I am Shimakaze. Speed. I am Speed.”
@@TrickiVicBB71 i remember being on the forum minis WAS site every day. rand some fun games at conventions too. if i did it again i think i would go with ruler measurements like full thrust has.
@@metaknight115 The Yamatos are more a case of the IJN making the same mistake everyone else was also making; wasting money on new battleships due to institutional inertia and fighting-the-last-war syndrome.
@@observationsfromthebunker9639 The actual reason she underperformed at Samar was that she was overloaded with Musashi’s survivors (of which there were many) and thus stuck at the back of the Japanese fleet.
The first destroyer picture you showed the kana on the side says Kibufu. Is that the name of that IJN vessel? If so, what class is it? @ 0:34 for reference Edit: maybe it is Fubuki hahaha. I forgot you need to read right to left in Japanese xD
It took me far too long to realize they were right-to-left (or technically, top-to-bottom each in their own column) when I first tried to ID ships like this hahaha
The US and the sheer number of aircraft they threw at japanese ships has got to be the biggest example of "fair fights are for suckers" I've ever seen or heard of😂.
The Japanese navy had some of the most impressive and nicest looking ships ever built, ut's too bad they were the underdogs and I didnt matter how much better there ships and crews were than the americans' who would just flood the seas with there slapped together ships and fill the sky with flying bombs once the industry machine got going. It's impressive how much damage the Japanese did before being outnumbered like a hundred to one and running out of fuel
The crowning achievement of this vessel was to become Internet Famous 70 years after death by being turned into an anime girl with a short skirt and a (wannabe) long jacket.
The wonderful KanColle Shimakaze, plus the incredibly fun War Thunder Shimakaze, plus the very cool and interesting real ship and its history make for an excellent package.
If I am not mistaken, I believe her name interpreted in English means "shimmering wind". I'm actually looking quite forward to seeing more history on the different and unique destroyers of the Japanese Navy as well as others. I don't think destroyers really good enough credit where credit is due except for the American ones oh, and some Royal Navy.
Honestly this thing is far more deserving of that description than Yamato. Just about everyone wasted money on pointless battleships in WWII, but only Japan built pointless torpedo attack specialists.
I'm actually a little surprised Drach didn't flash up and image of John Steed and Emma Peele when he rattled off that list of attacking aircraft... ;) (Just to thumb his nose at those expecting to see a picture of Captain America at that point...)
The decision to not develop an effective AA gun system really handicapped the Japanese Navy. It almost seems like concept of ship to ship torpedo fighting was so romantically enticing to many inter war planners that they ignored anything else. Admirals just loved the idea of ships jousting at each other with modern lances.
Was there any other ships during WWII the size of a DD that were capable of 40+ knots or did the Japanese have a monopoly on this outstanding speed capability?
Pinned post for Q&A :)
Raizō Tanaka vs Philip Vian who was the most effective Destroyer commander?
What would you consider to be the worst Peacetime disaster/tragedy in RN and US history respectively?
While you’ve said before you plan on doing a video on the Franklin Expedition, what about other Royal Navy excursions into the Artic and Antarctic? Perhaps even videos on the careers of the Likes of Crozier, John Ross and James Clarke Ross
Will you make an in depth video on the smaller axis navies, and if not can you give a brief overview of the destroyers of the Romanian navy
At what point does speed usually start becoming impractical due to ships never going at such speeds/the speeds never making a difference compared with the downsides?
(For multiple different types of ships)
Were the Super Shimakaze Class Destroyer and Super Akizuki Class Destroyer supposed to replace older IJN Destroyers?
This destroyer is in the words of Jeremy Clarkson. "Speed and power."
But can it be fixed with only a hammer?
JC - "Speed and power doesn't work"
@@SPR-Ninja Waiting for that one.
@@LuvLikeTruck I think that’s only allied destroyers.
The fastest destroyer...........In the World !
Always love Drac’s dry sense of humor. “The ship finally exploded after the fires reached something interesting”
Also, "This [convoy escort and troop evac] she did for about a year, before a refit added some more 25mm guns and a Type XIII air search radar, so she could at least see what her AA suite was inevitably going to miss coming from a longer distance."
That’s a nice fleet formation you’ve got there, would be a shame if someone… *torpedoed all of it*
I think she got, but missed, her chance at Samar due to being overloaded with Musashi's and Maya's crew.
*[Chuckles in USN Naval air supremacy]*
Kumchatka be like. Torpedoes WHERE?
Mogami would be proud of that.
Japanese could've used her in the battle of the Solomons. Too little, too late
During the battle of omrac bay shimakazes speed meant she was never hit by aerial bombs and torpedoes. Just machine guns but her thin skin meant that it put holes in her high pressure boilers eventually leading to their rupture and her destruction.
This is well described in the book COMBINED FLEET DECODED by John Prados.
Those armor-piercing incendiaries from the .50s were Hell unleashed to a thin skinned ship like a supply ship or an escort vessel. Fighter sweeps before bomb and torpedo runs were found to lessen anti-aircraft fire, sometimes quite considerably, for them in their attacks. Imagine ten Hellcats strafing Shimakaze. Unbelievable. Hell on Earth for the crew.
"Hi! Your ticket to reincarnation is being fulfilled early! Sayonara!"
“Mangled” is a bit of an understatement when describing the state of her wreck. Though to be fair, we now know how much damage her torpedoes could do to a ship.
Shimakaze was such a beautiful ship, same as with the other IJN DDs starting with Fubuki. I really wish we could have had just any one survive til today to be a museum ship...
Not so sorry, really. The Japanese were fearsome foes and vicious rulers of conquered territories.
@@David-il9xw so by that logic, it makes the Shimakaze an ugly ship?
@@corndog7905 IMO, the IJN made some of the most aesthetically pleasing ships.
@@corndog7905 No, it’s an amazing ship, just as thermonuclear devices are intriguing and ingenious creations.
@@David-il9xw So? As were the Nazis and the Soviets...and the British for that matter. Every country has it's share of atrocities. Doesn't change the fact I like historical figures like Nelson, or see ships like Bismarck as great feats of engineering. I can very well love IJN ships and condemn the acts of imperial Japan at the same time.
The ABC destroyer concept really seems to have had merit if implemented sooner and then evolved to compliment each other within tasks forces. One sees great potential for pairing the Akizuki class with the Shimakaze, the two types covering each other's deficiencies. Shimakaze brings the heavy anti-ship power with torpedoes while the Akizuki keeps away airpower and presents a dangerous opponent for enemy destroyers or escorts. Send Akizukis ahead to intercept enemy destroyers and airpower while the Shimakazes maneuver to get their torpedoes on the big ships, then use their own guns to cover the withdrawal of the Akizukis. I wonder if any IJN officers were thinking along these lines at some point, but the likelihood of finding such documentation is rather low, especially for this Gaijin.
Those engine ratings are a bit bonkers. To put it in a modern context, each of the 4 screws on a US supercarrier is rated for 70khp. The Shima, while displacing just 1/40th that of a Nimitz, has more than 1/4th the shaft horsepower.
All Japanese destroyers, regardless of class, were 2 shaft ships.
A ship behind her time. Lucky for the allies she wasn't at Guadalcanal in '42, all those extra torpedoes would have been devastating to US cruisers.
Agreed, especially during the night battleship action against USS Washington and USS South Dakota. A single Long Lance could do heavy damage even against their torpedo protection. USS North Carolina stopped a Long Lance from a submarine and was knocked out of the war for nearly six months while a new bow was fitted.
imagine if she had been at Tassafaronga.
@@robertf3479 After the North Carolina got hit - she increased speed and left the area. The hit was supposedly actually serious but she was not limited in her ability to perform. She did take a while to fix though.
This was part of the most successful torpedo spread ever. It sank the Wasp., damaged the North Carolina and sank a destroyer - all the way across the fleet from where the torpedoes were fired.
.,
Not like they needed any help getting sunk
She was too OP for 1942 so they put her in 1944-45 vs carriers
Shimikaze proud: I'm designed to be fast and powerful, and I have enough firepower to sink a fleet.
Me: And did you ever do, what you were designed for?
Shimikaze sobbing: No
Proceeds to sail over to a corner and cry.
The Yamatos and late 1944-1945 IJN aircraft carriers can relate
No comment on the thong...
@@rdfox76 what?
@@metaknight115 Try "WWII-generation battleships in general"; the Yamatos tend to be singled out for this problem, but this was actually universal.
@@bkjeong4302 Oh damn
Fast and powerful offensive design. The Imperial Japanese Navy Doctrine embodied in a ship.
Ironically by the late war the long lances where more detrimental for their own ships that for the enemy
@@d.olivergutierrez8690 True.
Yah, kind of like Yamato; overpriced, impractically outfitted, worthless against the most devastating element of WW2 - Air Power - and ultimately accomplishes very little beyond getting sunk and failing Japanese missions.
@@d.olivergutierrez8690 And totally foreseeable; the vulnerability of torpedoes is the major reason why the Americans removed them from their ships. The Japanese ships typically jettisoned or fired their torpedoes during concerted air attacks - in random directions just to get them off the ship. This is one of the principal reasons why the Japanese favored night attacks (not because they were particularly "good" at it; not only is that a wild overstatement of actual history, but the Japanese didn't really acknowledge this "advantage" at the time because they hadn't met the Americans in surface battle at the time). Essentially, the Japanese couldn't use their torps if they were fired off or jettisoned, and this was more likely to happen if they were spotted by American aircraft during the day. And if they were spotted during the day, there was a good chance they would be attacked by American aircraft - and this made it much more likely that they would have to dump torpedoes to avoid detonation (the O2 torpedo fuel was EXTREMELY volatile, it wasn't that the Americans "couldn't" make one themselves, they fiddled around the the idea themselves ofc, but the drawbacks were too great in their risk-benefit judgment-analysis). The greatest Japanese Naval victory at the Battle of Savo Island is the epitome of this principle - Japan's greatest advantage at Guadalcanal was their torpedoes (at this point, the Zero was being bested by the Wildcat, the American Battleships were more than a match for their Japanese counterparts, the US Marines could best the Japanese Army on land, etc). The night battle and Japanese torpedo salvos at Savo Island crystallized this reality, which is why the Japanese always tried to repeat it...because it never would have occurred during the daytime, considering the Japanese forces would have DEFINITELY been scouted and attacked by Henderson Field and Carrier planes, resulting in the loss of Japanese torpedoes one way or another.
The type 13 radar at least giving the crew enough time to update their last will and Testament. 😂😂😂
Drach's dry humor is biting to say the least. XD
@@thomaskositzki9424 I'd say he had the typical British droll sense of humor (humour?).
Decades ago I built Hasegawa's 1/700 Waterline Shimakaze. It was notable in that it was the only kit with a metal bottom I'd ever encountered, making her by far the heaviest if all my destroyer models.
Until I was older I thought the 42 knot top speed listed in the instruction's brief history and overview to be a typo or propaganda.
I gotta admit, I got a chuckle when you mentioned the "last will" but... Because even if these guys had modern CIWS on that ship.... 300+ planes coming down on you isn't going to be a fun time
Essex-class airgroup vs Arleigh Burke? Place your bets!
She's not USS Laffey. (DD-724, not the night fighter DD-459)
Currently making a model of Shimakaze for a museum for the anniversary of the battle of Ormoc bay this coming November
I don't know if someone has posted it here, but initially the model for Shimakaze in Warthunder had AA guns where her X turret was. This was fixed after a few days. Rumors went around that, the modelers for the ship used R/V Petrel pictures as a source and since they didn't see a turret where the X turret was, they assumed it had only AA guns, whereas in fact just before she was sunk, her X turret was already damaged and out of place (as shown in the pictures); it merely detached from the ship as she went under.
Pretty sure the rumour that her turret had been removed for more AA was a thing that goes back much further than the WT model not (originally, before release) having it. Those stories/sources are probably how the model ended up that way in the first place. Glad they fixed it. :)
Just imagine what damage eight or ten of them would have done in those night actions at Guadalcanal.
Wouldn’t have been any more combat effective than existing 1942 Japanese destroyers.
@@petersouthernboy6327 I was thinking of all those long lance torpedoes hitting to water in the opening of the attack. That's got to cause some major headaches.
@@bigblue6917 the waters around Guadalcanal have quite a bit of background clutter (many islands in close proximity) and both sides had a great deal of difficulty distinguishing friend from foe. The 1942 Japanese destroyers were excellent as was their night vision optics and training. Wouldn’t have made a difference.
Fastest ship was Le Terrible though,
45,25 knots...
The Entire Le Fantasque class basically...
And they were superdestroyers
Irrc Tashkent was also faster. But that could be a trial when she had no weapons and light weight
Yep, all very fast, all with massive engine power :)
are we sure that 42 knots was the real speed or was that with no load out ? I've read 37 knots but who knows that could be a designed speed and designed speeds are often exceeded.
Manxman and Abdiel could do 40 knots but they were minelayers.
@@mikepette4422 trial speed can be higher than service speed depending on the ship
A another of the many what if's. Shimakaze, for no fault of her own, never got the oppurtunity to prove, or indeed disprove, her concept as a ship.
This is a ship that had its mission overtaken by the rise of aircraft carrier and RADAR guided weapons. Also what the Japanese didn't need was a destroyer that used as much fuel as a battleship.
A very interesting high performance design I wasn't aware of till now. The Wikipedia article says the full load displacement was about 3300 long tons and the LWL was over 400 feet (checking to make sure the dimensions Drach cited weren't LOA), so the proportions were close to ideal for speed. A comparison to the Fletcher is interesting: 2850 and 369 respectively, with "only" 60,000 HP, if I remember right. Yes, I believe the trials: 40 knots within reach! It would be interesting to see the profiles of these two designs superimposed on each other as an illustration of the similarities/differences.
An amazing ship to have at the outset of the war, later not so much.
Whenever Drachinifel posts a video involving ships that get put into games, the fans mention the in-jokes, but I'm surprised that YTPer's haven't crudely spliced the Kamchatka into an episode of TUGS yet.
Give us bloody time
Just wait until the Al players get here to celebrate their high-speed bunny-chan with the most massive Torpedo rating in the game!
@@observationsfromthebunker9639 Her pat lines are just too precious.
Recently oathed her since her lines are just too cute to left over. Kinda regretted it after realizing that NJ will get her oath outfit tho... hope Shima is next.
Never mind the other one.
My second favorite "class" of Japanese destroyer....thanks for your work.
Reading the names on the sides got me a couple times this video. I'm so used to it being written left to right, I often forget that it can go right to left, and was more common in those days.
Fun fact: "Backwards" names in Japanese aren't being written right-to-left, they're being written top-to-bottom, but on only one line. (Granted, it's functionally identical.)
@@limetom Yeah, I learned this recently myself, trying to ID a few ships. I suppose the English equivalent would be writing left-to-write, but only in one column:
shi
ma
ka
ze
This was the zenith of Japanese destroyer design and the Allies were lucky there was only one of them. Fubuki and Kagero class destroyers were 50 pounds of mean in a 10-pound can. Shimakaze was a monster. Imagine a line of six of them blazing around Savo Island at 40 knots launching giant, tight spreads of long lances. Yikes.
One of the best DD's in WoWs.
Fighting against one of these ships in Warships against a player that knows what they are doing, is one of the most terrifying experiences I’ve ever had.
Thanks for the video in explaining how the ship fared in the actual war
As someone who mained Shima :D
I loved having the entire enemy team channeling Kkamchatka. Only the first you know about torpedo boats is when your about to eat at least 10 torps. At that point the entire team makes the adventures of the 2ed Pacific squad look like a well executed voyage.
Your narration is always both fun AND informative. All the best to you sir!
When you "torpedo" a shimakaze today, they make a very different sound :3 (fans know *smirk*)
Good one!
Ahhh, yes. The "wall of skill"
Thank you, Drachinifel.
Your intro music grapples with Mark Felton's for a place in my brain! Great vid!
I think the Japanse really missed an important task of the destroyer. That is anti sub marine warfare. Very important when you are depended on naval supplies.
Which showed during the late war.
One of your better vids. Was never a huge fan of most Japanese ships but this one is outstandingly beautiful. Had never heard of it before this vid. Thanks.
"Something particularly interesting." Thank you for that.
Bravo another excellent video!!! I would also like to thank you for choosing not to include commercials in your videos. There is nothing more aggravating then paying for services to not watch commercials, and then having to watch them anyways. Keep up the awesome work!!!
Heavy torpedo armament of this ship reminded me of a pair Kitakami and Oi cruisers with over twice more long lances. They got 40 tubes each. Maybe you should make z film about them?
IIRC, Kitakami got 32 torpedo tubes and Oi got 40.
Zekamashi moment
I like your work. Thanks for the information and entertainment.
Shimakaze:" Okay, here we go. Focus. Speed. I am speed. One winner, 175+ losers. I eat Destroyers for breakfast. Breakfast? Maybe I should have had breakfast? Battleships could be good for me. No, no, no, focus. Speed. Faster than fast, quicker than quick. I am Shimakaze. Speed. I am Speed.”
A few challengers approach, all French!,
@@glauberglousger6643 they will appear in the sequel of this movie XD
He says as he prepares to race against the USS Johnston
@@glauberglousger6643 the French after their refit in 1943 in the US slow down by a couple of knots.
*knocking*
Hey Shimakaze, you ready?
IJN Shimakaze, the maiden of many torpedoes.
Fastest ship in Azur Lane
@@elkingoh4543 Except not. Literally all of the Le Fantasque class DDs and the odd DD of other nations, like Maury.
Yep, the bunny
I was hoping you would get to this destroyer. As a one off it was a favorite of mine, and I also liked its poetic name.
Japan definitely had the best ship names.
One of the finest Destroyers; and also a top tier bunny.
Oso~i!
Limited to Class Limit of 1 in Axis & Allies War at Sea.
But boosters can send a lot of dice towards a battleship at point blank range
i really need to dig that game out again. maybe run at Origins in 2023. thanks sir
@@mikehenthorn1778 your welcome. The Online community still runs. Smaller nowadays
@@TrickiVicBB71 i remember being on the forum minis WAS site every day. rand some fun games at conventions too. if i did it again i think i would go with ruler measurements like full thrust has.
A beautiful example of a smaller industrial base trying to make up for numbers with specialized tools. Lovely monster, one of my favorite DD’s.
Quite a famous ship, especially in a certain game!
Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well.
I too know what you are referring too
And most reenacting her packs a torpedo under the belt, for some reason
You mean the game with ships right, right?
@@paulsteaven ... ships that happen to be green in war against same number of ships in red
Shima is the classic IJN case of, interesting idea for a ship, but too late in launching to be able to do its assigned role.
So basically the Yamato’s and every post 1942 build carrier
@@metaknight115 The Yamatos are more a case of the IJN making the same mistake everyone else was also making; wasting money on new battleships due to institutional inertia and fighting-the-last-war syndrome.
@@bkjeong4302 That sure is true
Well she had a chance at Samar but like the other DDs was mishandled. CVLs were too far away & the Taffy 3 DD force had got among the larger ships.
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The actual reason she underperformed at Samar was that she was overloaded with Musashi’s survivors (of which there were many) and thus stuck at the back of the Japanese fleet.
Well the anime Shimakaze sure looks a LOT sexier... (Kantai Collection)
They both are, in their own way. But yes, she definitely has a rather iconic outfit. :D
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@@BleedingUranium but artists draw characters in her outfit.
A slick presentation, but very informative too! Love your style😅
Great work as usual Drach.
Interesting, a high-speed fleet attack destroyer made obsolete by carrier aircraft.
The first destroyer picture you showed the kana on the side says Kibufu. Is that the name of that IJN vessel? If so, what class is it?
@ 0:34 for reference
Edit: maybe it is Fubuki hahaha. I forgot you need to read right to left in Japanese xD
It took me far too long to realize they were right-to-left (or technically, top-to-bottom each in their own column) when I first tried to ID ships like this hahaha
41 knots jeez. Tokyo Drift mode engaged!
Love your sense of humor
A Battleship, traped in the Hull of a Destroyer 😂
Wasn't this a totally overpowered torpedo-spammer in NavyField*?
*those were the days!
That was Kitakami if I recall correctly
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You're right, it was Kitakami!
The US and the sheer number of aircraft they threw at japanese ships has got to be the biggest example of "fair fights are for suckers" I've ever seen or heard of😂.
Another great guide. Thanks Drach!
as usual - History's little side notes illuminate soo much.
Ah yes, the ship girl that became infamous because g-string bikini, bunny ribbon head band, and school girl-
What do you mean this isn't Kancolle?
Oso~i!
No this is Azur Lane
@@thedigitaldummy3098 Naw, it's World of Warships.
@@mayuri4184 you’re mistaken, we’re clearly in War Thunder.
@@thedigitaldummy3098 I thought it was Axis & Allies War At Sea
Imagine three like her at Savo Island.
thank you for another video of a poor ships story.
I'm fairly new here but I like your videos, they're very informative.
Yep, he’s got quite a got a knack for storytelling. Check out his video on the 2nd Pacific Squadron, if you haven’t already!
Check out his Guadalcanal Campaign playlist. Pretty good series
@@TrickiVicBB71 already have
@@PaperclipClips will do
I originally thought Shimakaze was the fastest destroyer of her time. Le Malin, Le Triomphant and Le Terrible proof otherwise.
Still can't get over the fact the third denied me Richelieu.
I believe in speed..... Torpedo power. Torpedo power and speed solves many things. - Shimakaze
Post Ormoc Bay.
"Speed and torpedo power doesn't work." -Shimakaze, possibly.
@@ph89787 "Well how hard can it be?" - Shimakaze while fighting the US Navy
@@Big_E_Soul_Fragment Yamato: DON’T SAY THAT!!!
Sadly, you can’t exactly torpedo aircraft
All this discussion of is the USS Alaska a battlecruiser? When does a destroyer become a light cruiser?
"Something interesting" on a warship is not something you want to be on fire.
Long Lance torpedoes traded speed and range for being enthusiastically flammable if hit by enemy fire, given the compressed oxygen used to power them.
Nice history…. Thanks for sharing!
the dread of every battleship player in world of warships
The Japanese navy had some of the most impressive and nicest looking ships ever built, ut's too bad they were the underdogs and I didnt matter how much better there ships and crews were than the americans' who would just flood the seas with there slapped together ships and fill the sky with flying bombs once the industry machine got going. It's impressive how much damage the Japanese did before being outnumbered like a hundred to one and running out of fuel
and then she became a cute anime -boat- girl!
Great work Sir thank you
The crowning achievement of this vessel was to become Internet Famous 70 years after death by being turned into an anime girl with a short skirt and a (wannabe) long jacket.
And your point being? :D
@@leftcoaster67 To state the crowning achievement of this ship.
Bunny ears included?
The wonderful KanColle Shimakaze, plus the incredibly fun War Thunder Shimakaze, plus the very cool and interesting real ship and its history make for an excellent package.
If I am not mistaken, I believe her name interpreted in English means "shimmering wind". I'm actually looking quite forward to seeing more history on the different and unique destroyers of the Japanese Navy as well as others. I don't think destroyers really good enough credit where credit is due except for the American ones oh, and some Royal Navy.
shimakaze means island wind.
@@FightingCucumber IJN had the best ship names.
shima - island
kaze - wind
most common interpretation of "shimakaze" I have seen was "islands breeze".
@@MehrumesDagon thank you. Like I said, was not sure.
Shimakaze: YOU'RE SO SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!
Mogador: Hold my wine...!
Vermont: Can you give me a tow? Please?
@@AzureAlliance31 Hey, the Fattleships get a nice little buff, and are now quick get moving, and then promptly hit a brick wall accelerating,
"A fine deadly sword in the age of guns"
Honestly this thing is far more deserving of that description than Yamato. Just about everyone wasted money on pointless battleships in WWII, but only Japan built pointless torpedo attack specialists.
Skill-wall incoming!
She would have been a beast in the Tokyo Express
The last time I was this early, the Bismark and Yamato weren't crappy submarines yet!
Are they crappy though? They were hidden for decades underwater, never needing to resurface at all!
That's some incredible will power on the crews part
"...you have 90 seconds to adjust your last will and testiment!"
shimakaze was adrift and on fire yeah almost ever WOWS game I play with her lol still love the Shima one of my fav DDs in game
I'm listening to this while playing the Shimakaze in WoWs Legends, so it's likely Shima-ception.
When ever I play musashi in wow blitz, shikashime with torpedos is the harbinger of death
Everything in this video points me to calling shimakaze the "Meme DD"
By the way, your theme makes a great ringtone!
Nice one, Drach.
Anybody else coming to this channel after getting hooked on Mighty Jingles World of Warships videos?
I'm actually a little surprised Drach didn't flash up and image of John Steed and Emma Peele when he rattled off that list of attacking aircraft... ;)
(Just to thumb his nose at those expecting to see a picture of Captain America at that point...)
YIKES ! 15 long lances !
Well done.
I do like Japanese destroyers.
I seriously wish History Classes were taught in your & Thoughty2's style of narration! History probably wouldn't repeat itself as frequently 🤨
*"I am speed"* - Lighting MacShimakaze
A muscle car of a ship...75,000 shp...like putting a V-8 on a moped.
I have 200 battles in WOWS in this thing, wall of skill never gets old haha
41 knots. Now this is pod racing 🐎
The decision to not develop an effective AA gun system really handicapped the Japanese Navy. It almost seems like concept of ship to ship torpedo fighting was so romantically enticing to many inter war planners that they ignored anything else. Admirals just loved the idea of ships jousting at each other with modern lances.
The issue wasn't a lack of concern in the IJN about AA, it was a lack of technical capability.
Shimakaze: I… am… speed.
No one:
15 sneaky boom bois: I'm feeling a little... MOODY!!!!!
Brill, ty :)
Was there any other ships during WWII the size of a DD that were capable of 40+ knots or did the Japanese have a monopoly on this outstanding speed capability?
Le Terrible of the Le Fantasque class
@@1968gadgetyo Thanks