Japanese destroyer Ayanami (1929)
Service
- as Ayanami30 April 1930 — 15 December 19421,201 days of the war
- Name
- Ayanami
- Pennant / hull number
- 1929
- Builder
- Fujinagata Shipyards
- Ordered
- 1923
- Laid down
- 20 January 1928
- Launched
- 5 October 1929
- Commissioned
- 30 April 1930
- Struck
- 15 December 1942
- Fate
- Sunk by gunfire from USS Washington (BB-56), 15 November 1942
By surface_action (1942) - 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)
Ayanami was a Fubuki-class destroyer, operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1929. Her keel was laid at Fujinagata Shipyards on 20 January 1928. Launched on 5 October 1929, she entered service on 30 April 1930.
21 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Mutsuki-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Hatsuharu-class destroyer.
Displacement was 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 1,201 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 15 December 1942.
She was sunk on 15 November 1942 by surface_action, at 9°10′S 159°52′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 Amagiri (1930)
- Japanese destroyer Asagiri (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 Ayanami (1929) 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. 57 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons