Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Sakura (桜（櫻）, "cherry blossom") was the 13th ship in the 32 ship Tei (or Matsu) class of destroyers in the service of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship's captain was Lt.Cmdr. Shoji Shimobe. Completed on 25 November 1944, she was immediately assigned to Destroyer Squadron 11 (Desron 11). Sakura was sunk after striking a mine in Osaka Harbor, Japan on 11 July 1945 when her aft magazine exploded. The Matsu-class ships were built late in the Pacific Theater of World War II in response to the changing character of naval warfare at that time. These ships were lighter and smaller than previous Japanese destroyers, including different armament such as enhanced anti-aircraft guns and anti-submarine weapons, along with radar. Since the risk of surface warfare had diminished, armaments such as torpedo tubes that would be useful against surface ships were reduced in the Matsu-class ships. The Matsu class was armed with one single 127-millimetre (5.0 in) L/40 AA gun mount forward and a twin 127 mm L/40 AA gun mount aft, with a quadruple mount of 610-millimetre (24 in) torpedo tubes amidships, 24 25 mm AA guns and depth charges."@en }
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- Japanese_destroyer_Sakura_(1944) abstract "Sakura (桜（櫻）, "cherry blossom") was the 13th ship in the 32 ship Tei (or Matsu) class of destroyers in the service of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The ship's captain was Lt.Cmdr. Shoji Shimobe. Completed on 25 November 1944, she was immediately assigned to Destroyer Squadron 11 (Desron 11). Sakura was sunk after striking a mine in Osaka Harbor, Japan on 11 July 1945 when her aft magazine exploded. The Matsu-class ships were built late in the Pacific Theater of World War II in response to the changing character of naval warfare at that time. These ships were lighter and smaller than previous Japanese destroyers, including different armament such as enhanced anti-aircraft guns and anti-submarine weapons, along with radar. Since the risk of surface warfare had diminished, armaments such as torpedo tubes that would be useful against surface ships were reduced in the Matsu-class ships. The Matsu class was armed with one single 127-millimetre (5.0 in) L/40 AA gun mount forward and a twin 127 mm L/40 AA gun mount aft, with a quadruple mount of 610-millimetre (24 in) torpedo tubes amidships, 24 25 mm AA guns and depth charges.".