Japanese destroyer Ariake (1934)
Service
- as Ariake25 March 1935 — 15 October 19431,505 days of the war
- Name
- Ariake
- Pennant / hull number
- 1934
- Builder
- Kawasaki Shipyards
- Ordered
- 1933
- Laid down
- 14 January 1933
- Launched
- 23 September 1934
- Commissioned
- 25 March 1935
- Struck
- 15 October 1943
- Fate
- Sunk in action, 28 July 1943 (1943)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,506 long tons (1,530 t)
- Length
- 109.5 m (359.3 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10 m (32.8 ft)
- Draught
- 3.38 m (11.1 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 4,000 nmi (7,408 km)
- Complement
- 212
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Ariake was a Hatsuharu-class destroyer in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1934. Kawasaki Shipyards laid her keel on 14 January 1933. Launched on 23 September 1934, she entered service on 25 March 1935.
Six ships of the class were built. The class followed the Akatsuki-class destroyer (1931) and was succeeded by the Shiratsuyu-class destroyer.
She displaced 1,506 long tons. She measured 109.5 m (359 ft) long with a beam of 10 m (33 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 212. Her main battery was of 127 mm (5 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 1,505 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 15 October 1943.
She was sunk on 28 July 1943, at 5°27′S 148°25′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
- 2 shaft Kampon geared turbines
- 3 boilers, 42000 hp
- Armament
- (as built) 2 × 2, 1 × 1 – 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 naval gun
- 2 × 1 – 40 mm AA guns
- 3 × 3 – 61 cm torpedo tubes
- 18 × depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Ariake (1934) 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. 78 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons