Tokitsukaze (時津風, Favorable Wind) was one of four s built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I.

Design and description The Isokaze-class destroyers were enlarged and improved versions of the preceding . They displaced at normal load and at deep load. The ships had a length between perpendiculars of and an overall length of , a beam of and a draft of .Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 140 Tokitsukaze was powered by three Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines, each driving one shaft using steam produced by five Kampon water-tube boilers.Watts & Gordon, p. 253 Two boilers burned a mixture of coal and fuel oil while the other three only used oil.Todaka, et al., p. 208 The engines produced a total of that gave the ships a maximum speed of . They carried a maximum of of coal and of oil which gave them a range of at a speed of . Their crew consisted of 92 officers and ratings.Friedman 1985, p. 242

The main armament of the Isokaze-class ships consisted of four quick-firing (QF) gun on single mounts. One gun was located on the bow, another between the forward pair of funnels, and the last two fore and aft of the rear superstructure. The destroyers' torpedo armament consisted of three twin rotating mounts for Friedman 2011, p. 349 torpedoes. One mount was positioned between the forward funnel and the forecastle while the other pair were between the aft guns and the rear funnel.

Construction and career Tokitsukaze was built at Kawasaki's shipyard in Kobe. The ship was launched on 27 December 1916 and completed on 31 May 1917.Friedman 1985, p. 243 She ran aground in heavy rain near Aoshima Island in Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyūshū, on 25 March 1918. The ship broke in half, but her equipment and weapons were salvaged. A replacement hull was begun at Maizuru Naval Arsenal on 2 December 1918, and she later reentered service with her machinery and weapons installed in the new hull. Decommissioned on 1 April 1935, she was hulked and renamed Haikan No. 20 as a training ship at the Imperial Japanese Navy Academy at Etajima in 1940. The ship survived World War II, but sank in a typhoon shortly after the war ended.

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