Japanese destroyer Enoki (1945)
Tachibana sub-class of the Matsu-class destroyer escort destroyer
Service
- as Enoki? — 30 September 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- Enoki
- Pennant / hull number
- 1945
- Namesake
- Nettle tree
- Builder
- Maizuru Naval Arsenal
- Ordered
- 1944
- Laid down
- 14 October 1944
- Launched
- 27 January 1945
- Struck
- 30 September 1945
- Fate
- Sunk by naval mine, 26 June 1945, and scrapped (1945)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,288 long tons (1,309 t)
- Length
- 100 m (328.1 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.35 m (30.7 ft)
- Draught
- 3.37 m (11.1 ft)
- Speed
- 27.8 knots (51.5 km/h, 32 mph)
- Range
- 4,680 nmi (8,667 km)
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Enoki was a Tachibana sub-class of the Matsu-class destroyer escort destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1945. She was named for Nettle tree. Maizuru Naval Arsenal laid her keel on 14 October 1944. She was launched on 27 January 1945.
She displaced 1,288 long tons. She measured 100 m (328 ft) long with a beam of 9.3 m (31 ft). Her designed speed was 27.8 knots.
Her main battery was one 127 mm (5 in) guns. Her machinery developed 19,000 shp through two shafts.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 30 September 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 26 June 1945.
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 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 2 × water-tube boilers; 19000 shp
- Armament
- 1 × twin, 1 × single 127 mm DP guns
- 4 × triple, 13 × single 25 mm AA guns
- 1 × quadruple 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 × rails, 2 × throwers for 60 depth charges
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Hagi (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Hatsuume
- Japanese destroyer Hatsuzakura
- Japanese destroyer Kaba (1945)
- Japanese destroyer Kaki (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Kusunoki (1945)
- Japanese destroyer Nire (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Odake
- Japanese destroyer Shii
- Japanese destroyer Sumire (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Tsuta (1944)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Enoki (1945) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: maybe Maizuru Naval Arsenal. — Fukui Shizuo "Fukui Shizuo collection, Japanese Naval Vessels 1869-1945", Bestsellers(Japan),1994 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons