Japanese destroyer Hamakaze (1940)

Hamakaze (浜風) was a Kagero-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

On 7 April 1945, Hamakaze escorted the battleship JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Yamato from the Inland Sea on her Operation Ten-Go attack on the Allied forces on Okinawa. She was sunk by aircraft of Task Force 58 and sank 150 miles (280 km) southwest of Nagasaki (30.78333°N, 128.13333°W).