海風, lit. "Sea Breeze".

Seventh of the ten [i][[Shiratsuyu (kancolle)|Shiratsuyu-class]][/i] destroyers in [[Kantai Collection]].
Character design by [[Kujou Ichiso]], voiced by [[Ishigami Shizuka]].

h4. Personality
She has a serious and eager personality, and tends to worry over her sister-ship, [[Kawakaze (kancolle)|Kawakaze]].

h4. Appearance
Umikaze has [[blue eyes]] and [[very_long_hair|very long]] [[silver_hair|silver]] or [[white hair]] tied in a single [[braid]] with a [[hair tie]], and [[parted bangs]]. She also has a [[mole_under_eye|mole under her left eye]]. Her clothing has a distinct black and white contrast with blue trimming, with a white-and-black [[collared_shirt|collared]] [[sleeveless shirt]], blue [[neckerchief]], [[black_gloves|black]] [[elbow gloves]], a [[black_skirt|skirt]] [[pleated skirt]], [[black pantyhose]], and [[loafers]]. She shares nearly all of these clothing characteristics with Kawakaze.

Her [[machinery|combat gear]] is unusually painted all black, with a hand-carried, twin-[[turret]] [[cannon]] in her left hand, twin [[torpedo]] turrets on her thighs, and a [[smokestack]] and antenna mast carried like a backpack.

She obtained her [[Umikaze Kai Ni (Kancolle)|second remodel]] on the June 25th 2019 update. See the post for more details.

For a collaboration with Lawson in September 2016, she was also designated to wear the employee's uniform for a picture with Kawakaze.

h4. History
Historically, she was one of the first ships built under the Circle Two Program, launched in early 1936. She was originally part of Destroyer Division 24 along with her sister ships [i][[Yamakaze (kancolle)|Yamakaze]][/i], [i][[Kawakaze (kancolle)|Kawakaze]][/i], and [i][[Suzukaze (kancolle)|Suzukaze]][/i]. Although she mainly performed troop transport or escort missions, she was involved in several dangerous night missions to bombard Henderson Field in Guadalcanal, fighting in the infamous Ironbottom Sound, including in the First Battle of Guadalcanal. Afterwards, she was heavily damaged by an airstrike, and forced to be towed to Sasebo by [i][[Asashio (kancolle)|Asashio]][/i]. She had one of her cannon turrets removed, and replaced with an additional Type 96 Anti-Air gun. Ultimately, she was sunk at Truk Atoll by the [i]USS Guardfish[/i], a [i]Gato-class[/i] submarine in March 31, 1944, with 215 of her crewmen surviving.

h5.[i]Kantai Collection[/i]'s [i]Shiratsuyu[/i]-class
* [[shiratsuyu (kancolle)|Shiratsuyu]]
* [[shigure (kancolle)|Shigure]]
* [[murasame (kancolle)|Murasame]]
* [[yuudachi (kancolle)|Yuudachi]]
* [[harusame (kancolle)|Harusame]]
* [[samidare (kancolle)|Samidare]]
* [b]Umikaze[/b]
* [[yamakaze (kancolle)|Yamakaze]]
* [[kawakaze (kancolle)|Kawakaze]]
* [[suzukaze (kancolle)|Suzukaze]]

h4. See also
* [[Umikaze (Azur Lane)]]

h4. External links
* "Wikipedia: IJN [i]Umikaze[/i]":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Umikaze_(1936)]
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