Japanese destroyer Tokitsukaze
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| Fate: | Sunk in action, 4 March 1943 |
| Struck: | 1 April 1943 |
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| Displacement: | 2,490 tons |
| Length: | 388 ft 9 in (118.5 m) |
| Beam: | 35 ft 5 in (10.8 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft 4 in (3.8 m) |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
| Complement: | 240 |
| Armament: | 6 × 5 in (127 mm) / 50 caliber DP guns, up to 28 × 25 mm AA guns, up to 4 × 13 mm AA guns, 8 × 24 in torpedo tubes, 36 depth charges |
Tokitsukaze (時津風? "Favorable Wind") was a Kagero-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
On 3 March 1943, Tokitsukaze was escorting a convoy troop transports from Rabaul towards Lae. Allied aircraft attacked the convoy, and in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, sank all the transports and several of the escorts. Tokitsukaze was hit and left dead in the water early in Allied air attacks of 3 March, with 19 killed. The abandoned hulk was sunk on 4 March by Allied aircraft, 55 miles (100 km) southeast of Finschhafen ().
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| Kagero-class destroyer |
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Kagero | Kuroshio | Oyashio | Hatsukaze | Natsushio | Yukikaze | Hayashio | Maikaze | Isokaze | Shiranuhi | Amatsukaze | Tokitsukaze | Urakaze | Hamakaze | Nowaki | Arashi | Hagikaze | Tanikaze | Akigumo |
| List of ships of the Japanese Navy |
