Imperial Japanese Navy — Destroyer class
Hatsuharu-class destroyer
Hatsuharu class
The class in numbers
- 6 Completed
- 6 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- Imperial Japanese Navy
- Built
- 1931–1935
- In commission
- 1933–1945
- Preceded by
- Akatsuki-class destroyer (1931)
- Succeeded by
- Shiratsuyu-class destroyer
- Builders
- Sasebo Naval Arsenal (2)
- Uraga Dock Company (2)
- Kawasaki Dockyard Co.
- Kobe Shipyard (1)
- Maizuru Naval Arsenal (1)
- Subclasses
- Ariake class
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As initially completed
- Displacement, standard
- 1,506 long tons (1,530 t)
- Length
- 109.5 m (359.3 ft) OA
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Complement
- 212
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- 2 × twin, 1 × single 127 mm guns
- 2 × single 40 mm AA guns
- 2 × triple 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 18 × depth charges
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese destroyer Ariake (1934) | 1934 | 1935 | Sunk 1943 |
| Japanese destroyer Hatsuharu (1933) | 1933 | 1933 | Sunk 1944 |
| Japanese destroyer Hatsushimo (1933) | 1933 | 1934 | Scrapped 1945 |
| Japanese destroyer Nenohi (1932) | 1932 | 1933 | Sunk 1942 |
| Japanese destroyer Wakaba (1934) | 1934 | 1934 | Sunk 1944 |
| Japanese destroyer Yūgure (1934) | 1934 | 1935 | Sunk 1943 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Hatsuharu-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.