There are four generations of ships named "Ray". The first generation of "Ray" is the first of six "Ray" class destroyers built by the British Yarrow Company for Japan, including "Thunder", "Electricity", "Akebono", "Ripple", "胧", "Neon", which is the earliest ship class used by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Construction of the first generation, the Ray, began on 1 September 1897, was launched on 15 November 1898, and was completed on 25 February 1899. With a displacement of 305 tons, a speed of 31 knots, it was equipped with 2 76 mm main guns and 2 torpedo tubes.
The "Ray" was assigned to the Second Destroyer Group during the Russo-Japanese War, and on April 12, 1904, as a support team, participated in the mine-laying operation outside the port of Lushun, and encountered a Russian destroyer in the early morning of the next day, sinking and severely damaging one Russian ship each.
On October 10, 1913, the "Ray" was delisted on November 5 of the same year and sold on April 29, 1914, when the steam pot exploded and broke its hull.
The second generation of the "Ray" belongs to the late type 23 of the snow blowing class, also known as the modified snow blowing class. Construction began on March 7, 1930 in the Puga Funa Canal, launched on October 22, 1931, and completed on August 15, 1932, with the same basic parameters as the second generation of the Blowing Snow.
When the invasion of China broke out in July 1937, the Japanese Navy established the Fourth Mine Warfare Team to operate in the coastal areas of Chinese mainland. The Fourth Mine Warfare Team, with the light cruiser Kiso as its flagship, and the Mines, Lightning, and Sound, which was originally the Sixth Destroyer Of the Yokosuka Vigilance Brigade, were also incorporated into it, and participated in the Wusong landing operation and the Hangzhou Bay landing operation. On 22 June 1939, he was sent to Malloerapu Atoll and other places to do a two-month investigation to collect information on the construction of an aviation base.
At the beginning of the Pacific War, the "Ray" and the "Electricity" were temporarily placed under the command of the Second Fleet and participated in the Hong Kong Offensive. After December 26, the two ships returned to the headquarters of the Southern Forces, and formed an eastern support team with the battleships Haruna and the heavy cruiser Maya, and participated in the attacks on Siribes and Ambon. He took part in the Timor Island attack on 16 February 1942, followed by the sinking of the British heavy cruiser Exeter and the destroyer Encounter during the Battle of Surabaya on 1 March.
During the Battle of Midway in June 1942, Ray joined the northern forces attacking Aleutian and was assigned to the main fleet of the Fifth Fleet flagship, nachi, and directly participated in the attu island attack. He then moved to solomon waters and participated in the Guadalcanal transport operation, where he was wounded by heavy U.S. artillery fire during the Third Battle of Solomon on November 12 and 13, 1942. In January of the following year, after completing repairs in Yokosuka, he was incorporated into the Northern Forces, and on March 27 he took part in the Battle of Attu Island, but a few days later the bow of the ship was damaged by a collision with the Wakaba in the Hosojo Strait due to stormy weather. On April 13, 1944, the escort fleet of the "Ray" was sunk by the US submarine "Mullet" in the west of Guam on its way from Saipan to Wolaai Atoll, and all of them were killed.
The third generation of the "Ray" (DE-222), the first ship of the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mine-class frigate, began construction on December 18, 1954 at the Kobe Shipyard in Kawasaki, launched on September 6, 1955, and completed on May 29, 1956, with a standard displacement of 1,070 tons and a maximum speed of 26 knots. He was transferred to the yac-30 on 31 March 1976 and delisted on 30 March 1983 along with the ship "Den".
The fourth generation of the DD-107, the Murasso-class frigate 7, began construction at the Hitachi Maizuru Shipyard on 25 February 1998, was launched on 24 June of the following year, and was completed on 14 March 2001. With a standard displacement of 4,550 tons and a maximum speed of 30 knots, it is currently in service and is designated as the port of Yokosuka.
This dish is a Chinese noodle dish in the "Lei" menu, which is actually fried beef and dried bamboo shoots, and the soup is made with a simple Japanese ramen soup. In the Navy, noodle dishes, including ramen, mostly use thinly rolled dried udon noodles, but in the Recipe of the Lei, real Chinese dry noodles are used. The recipe was introduced on the eve of the Outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in the Showa Decades, so it was a time when supplies were still abundant.
Ingredients (2 servings)
Chinese dry noodles 2 fingers
Cut the beef into thin slices 100 g
Dried bamboo shoots 60 g
(2 teaspoons each of oil and sugar are used to season with beef fillets, soak the dried bamboo shoots in water and remove the salt, then soak in 2 teaspoons each of soy sauce, sugar, and cooking wine, and then clear out and set aside.) Of course, you can also add seasonings directly when stir-frying as we usually do))
Ingredients for cooking soup:
2 tsp of soy sauce
2 tablespoons of sweet cooking wine
1 tbsp sugar
2 cups broth
A little umami seasoning
Stir-fry dried beef with bamboo shoots first. Season the beef with oil and sugar, sauté in a pan with dried bamboo shoots, and set aside.
Then cook the noodle soup. In a small pot, bring the broth boiled with bonito bone, add soy sauce, sugar, sweetened cooking wine, and umami seasonings to taste and set aside.
Finally, there is the boiled noodles. Cook the Chinese noodles in plenty of hot water (in addition to water), then drain the water in a box and put them in a bowl, then add the sautéed dried bamboo shoots and pour in the noodle soup that is cooked to a boil.
There were far more Chinese dishes in the Second Fleet Research Menu Set than on the Lei, and there should have been a head chef who was good at Chinese cuisine at the time, so the lei's sister ship, the Electric, also had a lot of Chinese dishes on the menu.