Japanese destroyer Asanagi
Service
- as Asanagi? — 10 July 19441,774 days of the war
- Name
- Asanagi
- Builder
- Fujinagata Shipyards
- Laid down
- 5 March 1923
- Launched
- 21 April 1924
- Struck
- 10 July 1944
- Fate
- Sunk on 22 May 1944 (1944)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,400 long tons (1,422 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,719 long tons (1,747 t)
- Length
- 102.5 m (336.3 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.1 m (29.9 ft)
- Draught
- 2.9 m (9.5 ft)
- Speed
- 37.3 knots (69.1 km/h, 42.9 mph)
- Range
- 3,600 nmi (6,667 km)
- Complement
- 148
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
Asanagi was a Kamikaze-class destroyer (1922) destroyer, operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Fujinagata Shipyards laid her keel on 5 March 1923. She was launched on 21 April 1924.
Nine ships of the class were built. The class followed the Wakatake-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Mutsuki-class destroyer.
She displaced 1,400 long tons standard and 1,719 long tons at full load. She measured 102.5 m (336 ft) long with a beam of 9.1 m (30 ft). Her designed speed was 37.3 knots, and she carried a complement of 148.
Her main battery was four 120 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 38,500 shp through two shafts.
She was in commission for 1,774 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 July 1944.
She was sunk on 22 May 1944, at 28°20′N 138°57′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 shafts; 2 × Kampon geared steam turbines
- Power
- 38500 shp
- 4 × Kampon water-tube boilers
- Armament
- 4 × single 12 cm Type 3 guns
- 3 × twin 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Asanagi 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. 28 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons