Japanese destroyer Fuyutsuki
Akizuki-class destroyer (1942) destroyer
Service
- as Fuyutsuki25 May 1944 — 20 November 1945465 days of the war
- Name
- Fuyutsuki
- Builder
- Maizuru Naval Arsenal
- Ordered
- 1942
- Laid down
- 8 May 1943
- Launched
- 20 January 1944
- Commissioned
- 25 May 1944
- Struck
- 20 November 1945
- Fate
- Used as breakwater in May 1948 (1948)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 2,700 long tons (2,743 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 3,700 long tons (3,759 t)
- Length
- 134.2 m (440.3 ft)
- Beam
- 11.6 m (38.1 ft)
- Draught
- 4.15 m (13.6 ft)
- Speed
- 33 knots (61.1 km/h, 38 mph)
- Range
- 8,300 nmi (15,372 km)
- Complement
- 300
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
Fuyutsuki was a Akizuki-class destroyer (1942) destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Maizuru Naval Arsenal laid her keel on 8 May 1943. She entered service on 25 May 1944, having been launched on 20 January 1944.
Displacement was 2,700 long tons standard and 3,700 long tons at full load. She measured 134.2 m (440 ft) long with a beam of 11.6 m (38 ft). Her designed speed was 33 knots, and she carried a complement of 300.
Her main battery was eight 100 mm (3.9 in) guns.
She was in commission for 465 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 20 November 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
- 4 × Kampon type boilers
- 2 × Parsons geared turbines
- 2 × shafts, 50000 shp
- Armament
- 8 × 100 mm/65 cal Type 98 DP guns
- 33 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns
- 4 × 610 mm torpedo tubes for Type 93 torpedoes
- 72 × depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Fuyutsuki on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Found at Warships of WWII: class AKIZUKI ( Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by BanyanTree using CommonsHelper . ) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons