Editing Shimakaze

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==Quotes==
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|Introduction = 駆逐艦島風です。スピードなら誰にも負けません。速きこと、島風の如し、です！
|Introduction/En = I'm Destroyer Shimakaze. When it comes to speed I'm the best there is, swift like the island breeze!
|Introduction/Note = Shimakaze = Island breeze

|Library = 艦隊型駆逐艦の最高峰を目指して開発された、高速で重雷装の駆逐艦、島風型よ。<br>40ノット以上の快速なんだから。<br>でも、量産には向かなくって、私一隻しか建造されなかったの。
|Library/En = I am Shimakaze, the Shimakaze-class ship that was developed as the pinnacle of destroyers, fast and armed with heavy torpedos.<br>After all, I can go faster than 40 knots.<br>However, I wasn't suited for mass production so I was the only one built.
|Library/Note = Shimakaze reported to have achieved a top speed of 40.65 knots (75.28 km/h; 46.78 mph) during her sea trials.

|Secretary 1 = おぅっ！
|Secretary 1/En = Oh!

|Secretary 2 = なんですかぁ提督ぅ！
|Secretary 2/En = What is it, Admiral?

|Secretary 2/Kai = 提督、おはようございまーっす！
|Secretary 2/Kai/En = Good Morning, Admiral!

|Secretary 3 = かけっこしたいんですか？負けませんよ？
|Secretary 3/En = Want to race? I won't lose.

|Idle/Kai = んぁ？･･･ん、今、連装砲ちゃんとお話したの。ふぅ･･･だって退屈なんだもん！
|Idle/Kai/En = Hmm… Ah! I was talking with Rensouhou-chan… sigh…'cause I'm bored!
|Idle/Kai/Note = Shimakaze is referring her animated '12.7cm Twin Gun Mount' as 'Rensouhou-chan'

|Secretary Married = えっ？提督、走り疲れたの？おっそーい！…でも、頑張ったね！
|Secretary Married/En = Eh? Admiral, you're tired from running? How slo~w!... But, you did your best!

|Wedding = 提督、私の走り見てくれた？ね、早いでしょ？早いでしょ？フフフン。
|Wedding/En = Admiral, did you watch me running? Heh, I'm fast, yeah? Yeah? *smug*

|Looking At Scores = 提督宛てに連絡がきてるみたいよ。
|Looking At Scores/En = Seems like there are messages addressed to you, Admiral.

|Joining A Fleet = 島風、出撃しまーす！
|Joining A Fleet/En = Shimakaze, deploying!

|Equipment 1 = もっともっと速くなってもいいの？
|Equipment 1/En = Can I keep getting faster and faster?

|Equipment 2 = これ以上速くなっても知らないから！
|Equipment 2/En = Don't blame me if I get even faster!

|Equipment 3 = おっそーい！
|Equipment 3/En = So slow!

|Supply = もっともっと速くなってもいいの？
|Supply/En = Can I keep getting faster and faster?
|Supply/Note = Same as Equipment (1)

|Supply/Kai = 補給おそーい！！
|Supply/Kai/En = The resupply is slow !!

|Docking Minor = タービン周りも整備したーい！
|Docking Minor/En = I want my engines serviced too!

|Docking Major = 連装砲ちゃんも修理してあげなきゃ。
|Docking Major/En = Rensouhou-chan needs to be fixed, too.
|Docking Major/Note = Again, 'Rensouhou-chan' is referring to her '12.7cm Twin Gun Mount'

|Docking Complete = 修理が終わった船があるみたいよ。
|Docking Complete/En = Looks like a ship is completely repaired.

|Docking Complete/Kai = 修理が終わったみたい。遅いってば！
|Docking Complete/Kai/En = So the repair is completed. Slow!

|Construction = また私より遅い船が出来たみたい。
|Construction/En = It looks like another ship slower than me has been constructed.

|Returning From Sortie = 艦隊がやっと帰投したよ。遅いよね？
|Returning From Sortie/En = The fleet finally came back. Slow, huh?

|Starting A Sortie = 連装砲ちゃん、一緒に行くよ。
|Starting A Sortie/En = Let's go, Rensouhou-chan.

|Battle Start = 私には誰も追いつけないよ！
|Battle Start/En = There's nobody that can keep up with me, you know!

|Attack = 島風、砲雷撃戦入ります！
|Attack/En = Shimakaze, engaging in shelling.

|Attack/Kai = 五連装酸素魚雷！いっちゃってぇー！
|Attack/Kai/En = Quint Oxygen Torpedoes! Fire!
|Attack/Kai/Note = The real-life Shimakaze was equipped with three [[61cm Quint (Oxygen) Torpedo Mount]]

|Night Battle = だからー、島風からは、逃げられないって！
|Night Battle/En = I told you there's no escape from Shimakaze!

|Night Attack = えへへ、あなたって遅いのね！
|Night Attack/En = Ehehe, you're too slow!

|MVP = 私が一番？やっぱり？そうよね！だって速いもん！
|MVP/En = I'm the best? Really? I knew it! I'm fast, after all!

|Minor Damage 1 = ひゃっ！？
|Minor Damage 1/En = Augh!

|Minor Damage 2 = やーめーてーよー！
|Minor Damage 2/En = Stop it already!

|Minor Damage 2/Kai = あんまりあれだと過熱しちゃうよ…
|Minor Damage 2/Kai/En = Keep that up and things are gonna get heated...

|Major Damage = はう…この私がやられるなんて…
|Major Damage/En = Argh, for me to get hit...

|Major Damage/Kai = あうぅっ！ 痛いってばぁっ！
|Major Damage/Kai/En = Augh! That really hurts!

|Sunk = 速いだけじゃ…だめなのね…
|Sunk/En = I guess only being fast isn't good enough...
|Sunk/Note = Shimakaze's speed (40+ knots) proved insufficient against the 350+ knots attack aircraft could achieve.
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===Seasonal Quotes===
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|RainySeason2015 = この季節は雨が多くて連装砲ちゃんたちが可哀想。早く夏になれー！早く早く！
|RainySeason2015_EN = There so much rain around this time of the year, I feel so bad for Rensouhou-chan and the gang. Summer come quick! Hurry it up!
|RainySeason2015_Clip = {{Audio|file=Shimakaze_Rainy_Season_2015.ogg}}
|RainySeason2015_Note =

|MidSummer2015 = なつー！連装砲ちゃんと泳ぎに行こう。泳ぎ比べも負けませんよ！だって速いもん！
|MidSummer2015_EN = Summeeer! Let's go swimming with Rensouhou-chan. I won't lose even if we compete in swimming! After all, I'm fast!
|MidSummer2015_Clip = {{Audio|file=Shimakaze_Mid-Summer_2015_Secretary_1.ogg}}
|MidSummer2015_Note =

|EndofYear2015 = 大掃除とか面倒くさ～い。早くおせちとか食べた～い。早く早く、お、おう！
|EndofYear2015_EN = Cleaning sucks~. I want to eat [[wikipedia:Osechi|New Year Food]] already. Hurry up! o, oh!
|EndofYear2015_Clip = {{Audio|file=Shimakaze_End_of_Year_2015.ogg}}
|EndofYear2015_Note = 

|NewYear2016 = 明けましておめでとう！今年も島風が誰よりも速いから、見てて…おう！
|NewYear2016_EN = Happy New Year! This year, Shimakaze's faster than anyone else, watch me...uu!
|NewYear2016_Clip = {{Audio|file=Shimakaze_New_Year_2016.ogg}}
|NewYear2016_Note =

|Valentine2016 = 提督、島風のチョコあげるよー。誰よりも速く食べてね？ほら、速く速くー！
|Valentine2016_EN = Admiral～ Shimakaze will give you some chocolate～ Make sure to eat it faster than the others. Come on, hurry up!
|Valentine2016_Clip = {{Audio|file=Shimakaze_Valentine_2016.ogg}}
|Valentine2016_Note = 

|ThirdAnniversary2016 = まだ三周年なの？おっそーい！でもおめでとう。提督、お祝いに島風と駆けっこしよ。負けませんよ！	
|ThirdAnniversary2016_EN = It's still third anniversary? Too slow! even then, congrats. Admiral, let's race as a celebration. I won't lose!	
|ThirdAnniversary2016_Clip = {{Audio|file=Shimakaze_Third_Anniversary.ogg}}
|ThirdAnniversary2016_Note = 

|RainySeason2016 = この季節は雨が多くて、連装砲ちゃんたちがかわいそう。早く夏になれ～、はやくはやく～！
|RainySeason2016_EN = There so much rain around this time of the year, I feel so bad for Rensouhou-chan and the gang. Summer come quick! Hurry it up!
|RainySeason2016_Clip = {{Audio|file=Shimakaze Rainy Season 2015.ogg}}
|RainySeason2016_Note = ''From [[Seasonal/Rainy Season 2015|Rainy Season 2015]]''
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==Character==
[[File:Anime shimakaze.png|thumb|250px]]

===Appearance===
*Shimakaze wears a sleeveless serafuku with golden buttons that exposes her midriff and a very short skirt. Her black undergarments are seen on her hips, and wears red striped stockings with gray shoes with rudders acting as heels. She has long blonde hair held in place by a hairband that resembles a bunny's ears and has modest breasts. She is often accompanied by Rensouhou-chan, three  gun turret familiars which originated from Shimakaze's three twin 12.7 cm/50 naval gun turrets. One of her Rensouhou-chan has a lifebuoy with "Zekamashi" scribbled onto it.

=== Personality ===
*Shimakaze is hyperactive and excitable, but is also absent-minded. She prides herself as being the fastest in her fleet, and boasts about her speed very frequently.

==Trivia==
*Her name means "island wind."
**It was first carried by the fourth ship of the Minekaze class in 1920.
**The Minekaze-class Shimakaze participated in WW2 under the name of Patrol Boat n°1.
**Guided missile destroyer JS Shimakaze (DDG-172) exists in JMSDF today.
*She was a unique ship with no sister ships.
*Sunk by American aircraft from Task Force 38 in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ormoc_Bay Battle of Ormoc Bay] near [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu,_Philippines Cebu, Philippines], 11 November 1944.
**[[Naganami]], [[Hamanami]] and unimplemented destroyer Wakatsuki also sank in the same area where Shimakaze sunk.
**Her wreck was finally discovered by RV Petrel in December 2017, after decades of lull under Ormoc Bay, in an underwater expedition sanctioned by the Philippine government. That same discovery also revealed Naganami and Hamanami too.
*She was ''not'' actually the world's fastest destroyer at the time; that honor goes to the French [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Fantasque-class_destroyer Le Fantasque-class] destroyers. ''Le Fantasque ''and her sisters had a top speed of 45 knots as opposed to Shimakaze's 40.9 knots. However if one considers offshore speed, Shimakaze would be the fastest destroyer at that time.
**There are several other destroyers around the world that were faster than her; namely, the russian [[Tashkent]] and the italian Capitani Romani, which could reach 42.5kn and 43kn respectively.
*Fans have given her the nickname "Zekamashi", her name "spelled" backwards as it would be on an old Japanese life preserver. This is because traditionally, Japanese was written in vertical columns from right to left. If you tried to write on something thin like a life preserver, there would only be space for one character per line, so you would end up writing backwards by modern, left-to-right standards.
**[[Kongou]] uses this nickname in the [[Anime|anime]].
* With [[Amatsukaze]], [[Akizuki]], [[Teruzuki]], [http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Hatsuzuki Hatsuzuki] and [[Suzutsuki]] she is one of 6 destroyers with "animated turrets".
* Shimakaze was NOT the last destroyer build by Japan which participated in WWII : she was actually followed by the Matsu class, which were supposed to be "more cost efficient" (hence cheaper and weaker) and Matsu's subclass, the Tachibana class. Although many destroyers of those two classes hadn't time to participate in combat, some were engaged in battles and sunk.
* She was not the first ship to carry the name "Shimakaze" in WWII. That honor goes to the IJN Shimakaze (1920), a Minekaze-class Destroyer built in 1920 and sunk on January 12, 1943. This Shimakaze actually saw more combat than the following ship that carried the name. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Shimakaze_(1920) IJN Shimakaze 1920]

==Historical Note==
Shimakaze was planned and built as the experimental prototype of a new class of heavy destroyers, designated "Type C." Sixteen other units were ordered but later cancelled due to more pressing wartime needs. Though never repeated, she was a successful design, combining large size (around 25 feet longer than Yuugumo-class destroyers), firepower (six 5" guns in new Type D turrets), and heavy torpedo armament (three quintuple sets of 24" tubes, the most powerful such broadside ever mounted on a Japanese destroyer) with a 40-knot top speed. The latter was thanks to new high-pressure, high-temperature boilers able to generate nearly 80,000 shaft horsepower and would have propelled all future Japanese destroyer designs, had circumstances permitted their construction.

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