Thank you for visiting the page! Ships with careful packing from Japan. The Amatsukaze is a high-speed destroyer that tested the high-temperature and high-pressure boilers installed on the destroyer Shimakaze, which later became the fastest ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. This ship was the ninth of the Kagero class destroyers, and at the start of the Pacific War, the four ships Hatsukaze, Yukikaze, Amatsukaze, and Tokitsukaze formed the 16th Destroyer Squadron. In January 1944, the ship was attacked by a U.S.