hatakaze (kancolle)
Hatakaze (旗風, lit. "flag wind") is the fifth of the nine Kamikaze-class destroyers as represented in Kantai Collection.
Appearance
Similar to her sister-ships, she wears a Meiji schoolgirl uniform with a loose gold haori over a white kimono top along dark grey-blue hakama short skirt tied with a sash bearing an anchor on the end, and brown, laced, knee-high, leather high-heeled boots. She has sky blue tareme eyes and dirty blonde/brown drill hair with bangs that come between her eyes in front and a medium-length ponytail held with a red hair ribbon and mast-themed hair ornament in back.
Her rigging includes a funnel attached to her back with an adjoining mast and two twin-tube torpedo launchers on either side of the funnel. Further out to the sides, at thigh-level, are cutoff-ship-deck-like platforms that bear a single-cannon turret. She also carries a single-cannon turret in her left hand like a pistol, which is modeled like a ship's bow in her left hand.
Personality
Hatakaze has a polite, elegant, humble, and mature personality type that resembles the "Yamato Nadeshiko" ideal. Her official voiced lines involve many references about looking up to her older sister-ships, such as Kamikaze, or commenting on Asakaze's night-aversion or Harukaze's cooking.
History
The historical IJN Hatakaze was launched on March 15th, 1924. At the time of the Battle of Pearl Harbor, she was assigned to Destroyer Division 5 (alongside sister-ships Harukaze, Asakaze, and Matsukaze). Destroyer Division 5 took part as escorts or screens in many of the early South Pacific invasions of the war, including the invasion of the Philippines and Solomon Islands. During the latter of which, Hatakaze participated in the Battle of Sunda Straight, performing a torpedo attack against ABDA cruisers.
On the 2nd of March, 1943, Hatakaze suffered an accidental explosion, and was forced to receive repairs for over a year, emerging in October of the following year. Following the dissolution of Destroyer Division 5, she was put directly into the Combined Fleet. On January 15th, 1945, she was sunk at port in what is now Kaohsiung, Taiwan by Allied aircraft.
Kamikaze-class Destroyers
- Kamikaze - first Kamikaze-class destroyer
- Asakaze - second Kamikaze-class destroyer
- Harukaze - third Kamikaze-class destroyer
- Matsukaze - fourth Kamikaze-class destroyer
- Hatakaze
See also
External links
- Kancolle Wiki: Hatakaze
- Kancolle English Wikia: Hatakaze
- Wikipedia: Japanese destroyer Hatakaze (1924)
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