Shimakaze

Info

10 島風 (しまかぜ) Shimakaze Shimakaze Class Destroyer HP 19→23 FP 12→29 ARM 8→29 TORP 45→89 EVA 50→99 AA 14→49 PLA 0 ASW 24→49 SPD Fast LOS 7→19 RGE Short LUK 10→49

Aircraft Equipment 0 12.7cm Twin Gun Mount 0 Type 22 Surface Radar -Locked- -Locked- Modernization 0 2 1 1 Build Time 0:30 (Normal) Remodel Req Consumption 20 25 Dismantle 1 1 5 0 Illustrator Shizuma Yoshinori Seiyuu Sakura Ayane

10 島風改 (しまかぜかい) Shimakaze Kai Shimakaze Class Destroyer HP 36→41 FP 14→59 ARM 14→59 TORP 48→99 EVA 55→99 AA 16→59 PLA 0 ASW 27→59 SPD Fast LOS 9→39 RGE Short LUK 12→59

Aircraft Equipment 0 Type 13 Air Radar 0 Type 93 Passive Sonar 0 25mm Triple Autocannon Mount -Locked- Modernization 1 2 1 2 Remodel Level 20 Remodel Req 100 120 Consumption 20 25 Dismantle 1 3 15 0 Illustrator Shizuma Yoshinori Seiyuu Sakura Ayane

Quotes

Event	Japanese	English	Note
Introduction Play	駆逐艦島風です。スピードなら誰にも負けません。速きこと、島風の如し、です！	I'm Destroyer Shimakaze. When it comes to speed I'm the best there is, swift like the island breeze!	Shimakaze = Island breeze
Library Intro Play	艦隊型駆逐艦の最高峰を目指して開発された、高速で重雷装の駆逐艦、島風型よ。 40ノット以上の快速なんだから。 でも、量産には向かなくって、私一隻しか建造されなかったの。	I am Shimakaze, the Shimakaze-class ship that was developed as the pinnacle of destroyers, fast and armed with heavy torpedos. After all, I can go faster than 40 knots. However, we were not suited for mass production so I was the only one built.
Secretary(1) Play	なんですかぁ提督ぅ！/ 提督、おはようございます！	What is it, Admiral! /(Kai) - Good Morning, Admiral!
Secretary(2) Play	おーぅ！	Oh!
Secretary(3) Play	かけっこしたいんですか？　負けませんよ	Want to race? I won't lose.
Secretary(idle) Play	んぁ？･･･ん、今、連装砲ちゃんとお話したの。ふぅ･･･だって退屈なんだもん！	Hmm… Ah! I'm just talking with Rensouhou-chan now… sigh…'cause I'm bored!
Secretary(Married) Play	えっ？提督、走り疲れたの？おっそーい！…でも、頑張ったね！	Eh? Admiral, you're tired from running? How slo~w!... But, do your best!
Wedding Play	提督、私の走り見てくれた？ね、早いでしょ？早いでしょ？フフフン	Admiral, wanna look at my running? Heh, it's fast, yeah? Yeah? *smug*
Show player's score Play	提督宛てに連絡がきてるみたいよ	Seems like there are communications addressed to you, Admiral.
Joining a fleet Play	島風、出撃しまーす！	Shimakaze, deploying!
Equipment(1) Play	もっともっと速くなってもいいの？	Can I just keep getting faster and faster?
Equipment(2) Play	これ以上速くなっても知らないから	Don't blame me if I get even faster.
Equipment(3) Play	おっそーい！	So slow!
Equipment(3) is shared with expedition selection, resource collection, instant repair and development.
Supply	補給遅い！！	The resupply is slow !!
Docking Current HP ≥ 50% of Max HP Play	タービン周りも整備したーい！	I want my engines maintained too!
Docking Current HP < 50% of Max HP Play	連装砲ちゃんも修理してあげなきゃ	Rensouhou-chan needs to be fixed, too.
Docking completed
Ship construction Play	また私より遅い船が出来たみたい	It looks like another ship slower than me has been completed.
Return from sortie Play	艦隊がやっと帰投したよ。遅いよねえ？	The fleet finally came back. Slow, huh?
Start a sortie Play	連装砲ちゃん。一緒に行くよ or 編成選択時と同じ	Let's go, Rensouhou-chan.
Battle start Play	私には誰も追いつけないよー	There's nobody that can keep up with me, you know!
Air battle
Attack Play	島風、砲雷撃戦入ります or 私には誰も追いつけないよ！ or 五連装酸素魚雷！いっちゃってぇー！	Shimakaze, engaging in shelling. or There's nobody that can keep up with me, you know! or Quint Oxygen Torpedoes! Fire!	The real-life Shimakaze was equipped with three 61cm Quint (Oxygen) Torpedo mounts
Night battle Play	だからー島風からは逃げられないって	I told you there's no escape from Shimakaze!	Kai(custom): だから、島風には誰も追いつけないって！
Night attack Play	えへへ、あなたって遅いのね！	Ehehe, you're too slow!
MVP Play	私が一番？やっぱり？そうよね！だって速いもん！	I'm the best? Really? I knew it! I'm fast, after all!
Minor damaged(1) Play	ひゃっ！？	Augh!
Minor damaged(2) Play	やーめーてーよー！ あんまりあれだと加熱しちゃうぞ？	Stop it already...
≥Moderately damaged Play	はう・・・この私がやられるなんて・・・ あうぅっ！ 痛いってばぁっ！	Argh, for me to get hit... Augh! That really hurts!
Sunk Play	速いだけじゃ…だめなのね…	I guess fast isn't all....	Shimakaze's speed (40+ knots) proved insufficient against the 350+ knots attack aircraft could achieve.

Drop Locations

Ship	Rarity	Type	No.	World 1						World 2					World 3					World 7					World 4					World 5					World 6					Remarks
				1	2	3	4	5	6	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5
Shimakaze	Holo	DD	010										✔️			✔️		✔️	✔️						✔️		✔️			✔️						✔️				Buildable (no LSC)

Character

Seiyuu: Sakura Ayane
Artist: Shizuma Yoshinori (しずまよしのり)

Appearance

• Shimakaze has long blonde hair. She is typically seen wearing an outfit with a sailor collar & striped thighhighs. She is often accompanied by Rensouhou-chan, familiar-like turrets which originated from Shimakaze's three twin 12.7 cm/50 naval gun turrets.
• Her headband gives her the appearance of a rabbit, playing off her prodigious speed and energy.

Notes

Behind the Design

Back in June 2016's Comtiq Magazine, an interview was conducted with Kantai Collection's producer Kensuke Tanaka, and artist Shizuma Yoshinori where they discussed about the work they did together back while producing the game.It was revealed through thier interview that Yoshinori orginally created Shimakaze's design for the Fubuki-class. But as revealed the design looked too fast to fit the Fubuki-class so Takana suggested that Yoshinori use this design and re-do it for Shimakaze.

As an end result the design that orginally started off as the Fubuki-classes design would then become changed into the Shimakaze we now know today.

In-Game Tips

Shimakaze may possess great underlining potential due to her good stats overall. Her most noted stats are her evasion, armor and torpedo stats. Her evasion and armor may allow her more survivability compared to other destroyers. Shimakaze's torpedo stat is difficult to utilize efficiently, but if one can acquire a bunch of Maruyus to improve her luck via modernization to near the same level as Yukikaze's luck it can be possible to make Shimakaze be able to deliver just as much if not more damage than Yukikaze can with Torpedo Cut-ins. Keep in mind though that this task is bound to take time to complete since her luck is entirely average.

Trivia

• Her name means "island wind."
• Highest fuel and ammo consumption among Destroyers, consuming 20 fuel and 25 ammo at full refuel.
• She was a unique ship with no sister ships.  In media, she is often shown as depressed by this.
  • However, Amatsukaze used prototype steam boilers and turbines which were later used in Shimakaze's construction.
• Sunk in the Battle of Ormoc Bay near Cebu, Philippines, 11 November 1944.
• She was not actually the world's fastest destroyer at the time; that honor goes to the French destroyer Terrible. Terrible had a top speed of 45 knots as opposed to Shimakaze's 40.9 knots. However if one considers offshore speed, Shimakaze would be the fastest destroyer at that time.
• Fans have given her the nickname "Zekamashi", her name "spelled" backwards as it would be on an old Japanese life preserver. This is because traditionally, Japanese was written in vertical columns from right to left. If you tried to write on something thin like a life preserver, there would only be space for one character per line, so you would end up writing backwards by modern, left-to-right standards.
• The Shimakaze in game is the second ship in the Japanese Navy to bear the name. Her predecessor being a Minekaze-class Destroyer who was slightly slower at 40.65 knots during sea trials.

Historical Note

Shimakaze was planned and built as the experimental prototype of a new class of heavy destroyers, designated "Type C." Sixteen other units were ordered but later cancelled due to more pressing wartime needs. Though never repeated, she was a successful design, combining large size (some 25 feet longer than yuugumo-class), firepower (six 5" guns in new Type D turrets), and heavy torpedo armament (three quintuple sets of 24" tubes, the most powerful such broadside ever mounted on a Japanese destroyer) with a 40-knot top speed. The latter was thanks to new high-pressure, high-temperature boilers able to generate nearly 80,000 shaft horsepower and would have propelled all future Japanese destroyer designs, had circumstances permitted their construction.

See Also

• View Shimakaze CG
• List of destroyers
• Wikipedia entry on destroyer Shimakaze