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27-507: (Redirected from Uzuki ) Two destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy were named Uzuki : Japanese destroyer Uzuki (1906) , a Kamikaze -class destroyer launched in 1906 and stricken in 1925 Japanese destroyer Uzuki (1925) , a Mutsuki -class destroyer launched in 1925 and sunk in 1944 [REDACTED] [REDACTED] List of ships with
54-424: A beam of 21 feet 7 inches (6.6 m) and a draught of 6 feet (1.8 m). The Kamikaze s were powered by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines , each driving one shaft using steam produced by four Kampon water-tube boilers . The engines produced a total of 6,000 indicated horsepower (4,500 kW ) that gave the ships a maximum speed of 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph). They carried
81-485: A Bermudan boat with this form of counter, using the term "square tuck stern" to describe it. The term "tuck" is used in the northwest of England for this area of the hull at the sternpost, and for the bulkhead across the counter if one is fitted. The fantail stern widens from the waterline as it goes upwards. It was found on many 19th century tea clippers and the ill-fated RMS Titanic . A bustle stern refers to any kind of stern (transom, elliptical, etc.) that has
108-474: A decade before the British. USS Brandywine became the first sailing ship to sport such a stern. Though a great improvement over the transom stern in terms of its vulnerability to attack when under fire, elliptical sterns still had obvious weaknesses which the next major stern development—the iron-hulled cruiser stern—addressed far better and with significantly different materials. In naval architecture,
135-412: A flat panel or a gentle curve, and the counter reached from the sternpost all the way to the taffrail in a continuous arch. It was soon discovered that vessels with cruiser sterns experienced less water resistance when under way than those with elliptical sterns, and between World War I and World War II most merchant ship designs soon followed suit. None of these three main types of stern has vanished from
162-404: A floating house—and required just as many timbers, walls, windows, and frames. The stern frame provided the foundational structure of the transom stern, and was composed of the sternpost, wing transom, and fashion piece. Abaft the fashion timber, the transom stern was composed of two different kinds of timbers: The flat surface of any transom stern may begin either at or above the waterline of
189-408: A kind of stern with a low rounded shape that is nearly flat at the waterline, but which then slopes upward in a conical fashion towards the deck (practical for small high-speed power boats with very shallow drafts). A Costanzi stern is a type of stern designed for use on ocean-going vessels. Its hard- chined design is a compromise between the 'spoon-shaped' stern usually found on ocean liners , and
216-461: A maximum of 100 long tons (102 t) of coal which gave them a range of 1,500 nautical miles (2,800 km; 1,700 mi) at a speed of 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph). Their crew consisted of 70 officers and ratings . The main armament of the Kamikaze -class ships consisted of two 40- calibre quick-firing (QF) three-inch (76 mm) 12 cwt guns on single mounts; the forward gun
243-491: A non-watertight counter which is boarded across the fashion timbers curving outward aft from the transom. Some working boats and modern replicas have a similar form of counter, built to be water tight as described in the "transom stern" section above. These are being confused with lute sterns but as a lute is not watertight, a better term is needed. Chappelle in American Small Sailing Craft refers to
270-432: A sailing ship located before the stern were composed of a series of U-shaped rib-like frames set in a sloped or "cant" arrangement, with the last frame before the stern being called the fashion timber(s) or fashion piece(s) , so called for "fashioning" the after part of the ship. This frame is designed to support the various beams that make up the stern. In 1817 the British naval architect Sir Robert Seppings introduced
297-450: A ship. Originally, the term only referred to the aft port section of the ship, but eventually came to refer to the entire back of a vessel. The stern end of a ship is indicated with a white navigation light at night. Sterns on European and American wooden sailing ships began with two principal forms: the square or transom stern and the elliptical , fantail , or merchant stern, and were developed in that order. The hull sections of
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#1732765265676324-400: A traditional sailing ship housed the captain's quarters and became increasingly large and elaborate between the 15th and 18th centuries, especially in the baroque era, when wedding-cake-like structures became so heavy that crews sometimes threw the decoration overboard rather than be burdened with its useless weight. Until a new form of stern appeared in the 19th century, the transom stern was
351-540: The Siberian Expedition . She was decommissioned on 1 December 1924 and was then converted into a radio-controlled target ship in January 1929. Stern The stern is the back or aft -most part of a ship or boat , technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost , extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail . The stern lies opposite the bow , the foremost part of
378-451: The 20th century); the vertical transom stern or plumb stern is raked neither forward nor back, but falls directly from the taffrail down to the wing transom. The rocket ship stern is a term for an extremely angled retroussé stern. A double ended ship with a very narrow square counter formed from the bulwarks or upper deck above the head of the rudder is said to have a pink stern or pinky stern. The torpedo stern or torpedo-boat stern describes
405-442: The concept of a rounded stern. The square stern had been an easy target for enemy cannon, and could not support the weight of heavy stern chase guns . But Seppings' design left the rudder head exposed, and was regarded by many as simply ugly—no American warships were designed with such sterns, and the round stern was quickly superseded by the elliptical stern. The United States began building the first elliptical stern warship in 1820,
432-407: The cruiser stern—another design without transoms and known variously as the canoe stern, parabolic stern, and the double-ended stern—became the next prominent development in ship stern design, particularly in warships of the earlier half of the 20th century. The intent of this re-design was to protect the steering gear by bringing it below the armor deck. The stern now came to a point rather than
459-405: The curvature is complete. The finished stern has a continuous curved edge around the outside and is raked aft. Other names for the elliptical stern include a "counter stern", in reference to its very long counter, and a "cutaway stern". The elliptical stern began use during the age of sail , but remained very popular for both merchant and warships well into the nautical age of steam and through
486-495: The first eight decades of steamship construction (roughly 1840–1920). Despite the design's leaving the rudder exposed and vulnerable in combat situations, many counter-sterned warships survived both World Wars, and stylish high-end vessels sporting them were coming off the ways into the 1950s, including the US-flagged sisters SS Constitution and SS Independence . As ships of wooden construction gave way to iron and steel,
513-478: The flat transom, often required for fitting azimuth thrusters . The design allows for improved seagoing characteristics. It is the stern design on Queen Mary 2 , and was originally proposed for SS Oceanic and Eugenio C , both constructed in the 1960s. A lute stern is to be found on inshore craft on the Sussex, England, shore. It comprises a watertight transom with the topside planking extended aft to form
540-437: The modern naval architectural repertoire, and all three continue to be used in one form or another by designers for many uses. Variations on these basic designs have resulted in an outflow of "new" stern types and names, only some of which are itemized here. The reverse stern, reverse transom stern, sugar-scoop, or retroussé stern is a kind of transom stern that is raked backwards (common on modern yachts, rare on vessels before
567-399: The rudder post (thus creating the "helm port" through which the rudder passes) to a point well above the vessel's waterline. Whereas the timbers of the transom stern all heeled on the wing transom, the timbers of the elliptical stern all heel on the whiskers, to which they are affixed at a 45° angle (i.e., "canted") when viewed from overhead and decrease in length as they are installed aft until
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#1732765265676594-699: The same or similar names This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese_destroyer_Uzuki&oldid=1047449848 " Categories : Set index articles on ships Imperial Japanese Navy ship names Japanese Navy ship names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata All set index articles Japanese destroyer Uzuki (1906) Uzuki ( 卯月 ) ("Month of Deutzia")
621-417: The stern's lowest set of windows (which in naval parlance were called "lights" ). The visual unpopularity of Seppings 's rounded stern was soon rectified by Sir William Symonds . In this revised stern, a set of straight post timbers (also called "whiskers", "horn timbers", or "fan tail timbers" ) stretches from the keel diagonally aft and upward. It rests on the top of the sternpost and runs on either side of
648-423: The term transom has two meanings. First, it can be any of the individual beams that run side-to-side or "athwart" the hull at any point abaft the fashion timber; second, it can refer specifically to the flat or slightly curved surface that is the very back panel of a transom stern. In this sense, a transom stern is the product of the use of a series of transoms, and hence the two terms have blended. The stern of
675-403: The vessel. The geometric line which stretches from the wing transom to the archboard is called the counter ; a large vessel may have two such counters, called a lower counter and a second or upper counter. The lower counter stretches from directly above the wing transom to the lower counter rail, and the upper counter from the lower counter rail to the upper counter rail, immediately under
702-629: Was located on superstructure , but the aft gun was at the stern . Four 28-calibre QF three-inch 8 cwt guns on single mounts were positioned abreast the superstructure, two in each broadside . The ships were also armed with two single rotating mounts for 450-millimetre (17.7 in) torpedoes between the superstructure and the stern gun. Uzuki was launched at Kawasaki 's shipyard in Kobe on 20 September 1906 and completed on 6 March 1907. The ship saw service in World War I and participated in
729-535: Was one of 32 Kamikaze -class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the first decade of the 20th century. The Kamikaze -class destroyers were improved versions of the preceding Harusame class . They displaced 381 long tons (387 t ) at normal load and 450 long tons (460 t) at deep load . The ships had a length between perpendiculars of 227 feet (69.2 m) and an overall length of 234 feet (71.3 m),
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