Kantai Collection Kanmusu picture gallery - Shimakaze

Welcome back to the kancolle kanmusu gallery. This time we have the fast destroyer, Shimakaze. One of the most iconic character on Kantai Collection, she is the first kanmusu that I've seen which made me jumped into the fandom itself.

Shimakaze (Island Wind) was a one-off super-destroyer built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. She was armed with six 127 mm (5.0 in) dual purpose guns and conventional anti-aircraft and anti-submarine weaponry. More importantly, she was the only Japanese destroyer to be armed with 15 torpedo tubes each capable of firing the deadly 610 mm (24 in) Type 93 "Long Lance" torpedo. The ship was a testbed for an enormously-powerful, high-temperature, high-pressure steam engine that was able to develop nearly 80,000 shp(60,000 kW). This made her one of the fastest destroyers in the world: her designed speed was 39 kn (72 km/h; 45 mph), but on trials she made 40.9 kn (75.7 km/h; 47.1 mph).

Shimakaze has long blonde hair and a flat chest. 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. She looks happy on the surface, but sometimes, deep inside, I can feel her loneliness for being a unique ship without any other sister ship (well, not until Amatsukaze was introduced tho).

Osoi....! What are you waiting for? Let's go!

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