Japanese destroyer Arashi
Service
- as Arashi25 November 1940 — 15 October 19431,054 days of the war
- Name
- Arashi
- Builder
- Maizuru Naval Arsenal
- Launched
- 22 April 1940
- Commissioned
- 25 November 1940
- Struck
- 15 October 1943
- Fate
- Sunk in action, 7 August 1943 (1943)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 2,490 long tons (2,530 t)
- Length
- 118.5 m (388.8 ft)
- Beam
- 10.8 m (35.4 ft)
- Draught
- 3.8 m (12.5 ft)
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Complement
- 240
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Arashi was a Kagerō-class destroyer in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was built by Maizuru Naval Arsenal. She entered service on 25 November 1940, having been launched on 22 April 1940.
19 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Asashio-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Yūgumo-class destroyer.
She displaced 2,490 long tons. She measured 118.5 m (389 ft) long with a beam of 10.8 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 35 knots, and she carried a complement of 240.
Her main battery was six 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,054 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 15 October 1943.
She was sunk on 7 August 1943. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- 6 × 127 mm/50 caliber DP guns
- up to 28 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns
- up to 4 × 13.2 mm AA guns
- 8 × 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 36 depth charges
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Akigumo (1941)
- Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze (1939)
- Japanese destroyer Hagikaze
- Japanese destroyer Hamakaze (1940)
- Japanese destroyer Hatsukaze
- Japanese destroyer Hayashio
- Japanese destroyer Isokaze (1939)
- Japanese destroyer Kagerō (1938)
- Japanese destroyer Kuroshio
- Japanese destroyer Maikaze
- Japanese destroyer Natsushio
- Japanese destroyer Nowaki (1940)
- Japanese destroyer Oyashio
- Japanese destroyer Shiranui (1938)
- Japanese destroyer Tanikaze (1940)
- Japanese destroyer Tokitsukaze (1939)
- Japanese destroyer Urakaze (1940)
- Japanese destroyer Yukikaze (1939)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Arashi on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Shizuo Fukui — Kure Maritime Museum, Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album: Destroyers , edited by Kazushige Todaka, p. 103; also published in Shizuo Fukui, Nihon No Gunkan: Shashinshu , published 1970 , p.203 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons