Japanese destroyer Amagiri (1930)
Service
- as Amagiri10 November 1930 — 23 April 19441,696 days of the war
- Name
- Amagiri
- Pennant / hull number
- 1930
- Builder
- Ishikawajima Shipyards
- Ordered
- 1923
- Laid down
- 28 November 1928
- Launched
- 27 February 1930
- Commissioned
- 10 November 1930
- Fate
- Sunk, 23 April 1944 (1944)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,750 long tons (1,778 t)
- Length
- 118.41 m (388.5 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.4 m (34.1 ft)
- Draught
- 3.2 m (10.5 ft)
- Speed
- 38 knots (70.4 km/h, 43.7 mph)
- Range
- 5,000 nmi (9,260 km)
- Complement
- 219
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Amagiri was a Fubuki-class destroyer in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1930. Ishikawajima Shipyards laid her keel on 28 November 1928. Launched on 27 February 1930, she entered service on 10 November 1930.
Her class ran to 21 ships. The class followed the Mutsuki-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Hatsuharu-class destroyer.
She displaced 1,750 long tons. She measured 118.4 m (388 ft) long with a beam of 10.4 m (34 ft). Her designed speed was 38 knots, and she carried a complement of 219. Her main battery was of 127 mm (5 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 1,696 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 23 April 1944, at 2°10′S 116°45′E. 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
- Propulsion
- 4 × Kampon type boilers
- 2 × Kampon Type Ro geared turbines
- 2 × shafts at 50000 ihp
- Armament
- 6 × Type 3 127 mm 50 caliber naval guns (3×2)
- up to 22 × Type 96 25 mm AT/AA Guns
- up to 10 × 13 mm AA guns
- 9 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes
- 36 × depth charges
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Akebono (1930)
- Japanese destroyer Asagiri (1929)
- Japanese destroyer Ayanami (1929)
- Japanese destroyer Fubuki (1927)
- Japanese destroyer Hatsuyuki (1928)
- Japanese destroyer Ikazuchi (1931)
- Japanese destroyer Inazuma (1932)
- Japanese destroyer Isonami (1927)
- Japanese destroyer Murakumo (1928)
- Japanese destroyer Oboro (1930)
- Japanese destroyer Sagiri
- Japanese destroyer Sazanami (1931)
- Japanese destroyer Shikinami (1929)
- Japanese destroyer Shinonome (1927)
- Japanese destroyer Shirakumo (1927)
- Japanese destroyer Shirayuki (1928)
- Japanese destroyer Uranami (1928)
- Japanese destroyer Ushio (1930)
- Japanese destroyer Usugumo (1927)
- Japanese destroyer Yūgiri (1930)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Amagiri (1930) 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. 63 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons