Imperial Japanese Navy — Destroyer class
Akatsuki-class destroyer (1931)
Akatsuki class
The class in numbers
- 4 Completed
- 3 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- Imperial Japanese Navy
- In commission
- 1932–1944
- Preceded by
- Fubuki-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Hatsuharu-class destroyer
- Builders
- Sasebo Naval Arsenal
- Maizuru Naval Arsenal
- Uraga Dock Company
- Fujinagata Shipyards
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,750 long tons (1,778 t)
- Length
- 118.5 m (388.8 ft)
- Speed
- 38 knots (70.4 km/h, 43.7 mph)
- Complement
- 233
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- 3 × twin Type 3 127 mm 50 caliber naval guns
- 2 × single Type 93 13 mm machine guns
- 3 × triple 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 18 × Type 93 torpedoes
- 18 × depth charges
Roster
Holding 2 of the 4 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese destroyer Akatsuki (1932) | 1932 | 1932 | Sunk 1942 |
| Japanese destroyer Hibiki (1932) | 1932 | 1933 | Target |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Akatsuki-class destroyer (1931) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.