Japanese destroyer Hanazuki
Akizuki-class destroyer (1942) destroyer
Service
- as Hanazuki26 December 1944 — 5 October 1945250 days of the war
- Name
- Hanazuki
- Builder
- Maizuru Naval Arsenal
- Laid down
- 10 February 1944
- Launched
- 10 October 1944
- Commissioned
- 26 December 1944
- Struck
- 5 October 1945
- Fate
- Sunk as target off Gotō Islands, Japan, 3 February 1948 (1948)
- Status
- Wreck
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)
Hanazuki was a Akizuki-class destroyer (1942) destroyer in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Maizuru Naval Arsenal on 10 February 1944. Launched on 10 October 1944, she entered service on 26 December 1944.
She displaced 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 250 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 5 October 1945.
She was expended as a target on 3 February 1948. 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 geared turbines
- 2 × shafts, 50000 shp
- Armament
- 8 × 100 mm/65 cal Type 98 DP guns
- 37 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns
- 4 × 13.2 mm AA guns
- 4 × 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 8 × Type 93 torpedoes
- 72 × Type 95 depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Hanazuki 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. 123 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons