Japanese destroyer Harusame (1935)
Service
- as Harusame26 August 1937 — 10 August 19441,805 days of the war
- Name
- Harusame
- Pennant / hull number
- 1935
- Namesake
- Spring Rain
- Builder
- Maizuru Naval Arsenal
- Ordered
- 1931
- Laid down
- 3 February 1935
- Launched
- 21 September 1935
- Commissioned
- 26 August 1937
- Struck
- 10 August 1944
- Fate
- Sunk off New Guinea, 8 June 1944 (1944)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,685 long tons (1,712 t)
- Length
- 107.5 m (352.7 ft) WL
- Beam
- 9.9 m (32.5 ft)
- Draught
- 3.5 m (11.5 ft)
- Speed
- 34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
- Range
- 4,000 nmi (7,408 km)
- Complement
- 226
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Harusame was a Shiratsuyu-class destroyer, operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1935. The ship was named after Spring Rain. Maizuru Naval Arsenal laid her keel on 3 February 1935. Launched on 21 September 1935, she entered service on 26 August 1937.
She was one of ten ships of her class. The class followed the Hatsuharu-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Asashio-class destroyer.
She displaced 1,685 long tons. She measured 107.5 m (353 ft) long with a beam of 9.9 m (32 ft). Her designed speed was 34 knots, and she carried a complement of 226.
Her main battery was five 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,805 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 August 1944.
She was sunk on 8 June 1944, at 0°05′S 132°45′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 shaft Kampon geared turbines
- 3 boilers, 42000 hp
- Armament
- 5 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 naval guns (2×2, 1×1)
- 3 × Type 93 13 mm AA guns
- 8 × 24 in torpedo tubes
- 16 × Depth charges
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Kawakaze (1936)
- Japanese destroyer Murasame (1935)
- Japanese destroyer Samidare (1935)
- Japanese destroyer Shigure (1935)
- Japanese destroyer Shiratsuyu (1935)
- Japanese destroyer Suzukaze
- Japanese destroyer Umikaze (1936)
- Japanese destroyer Yamakaze (1936)
- Japanese destroyer Yūdachi (1936)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Harusame (1935) 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. 81 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons