Japanese destroyer Harutsuki
Akizuki-class destroyer (1942) destroyer
Service
- as Harutsuki28 December 1944 — 5 October 1945248 days of the war
- as Vnezapny (Внезапный)25 September 1947 — 4 June 1969
- Name
- Harutsuki
- Builder
- Sasebo Naval Arsenal
- Laid down
- 23 December 1943
- Launched
- 3 August 1944
- Commissioned
- 28 December 1944
- Struck
- 5 October 1945
- Fate
- Scrapped
- Status
- Scrapped
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
- 263
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
Harutsuki was a Akizuki-class destroyer (1942) destroyer in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. Sasebo Naval Arsenal laid her keel on 23 December 1943. Launched on 3 August 1944, she entered service on 28 December 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 263.
Her main battery was eight 100 mm (3.9 in) guns.
She served with the Imperial Japanese Navy as Harutsuki until 5 October 1945. She then passed to the Soviet Navy, serving as Vnezapny (Внезапный) from 25 September 1947. She was in commission for 248 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 5 October 1945.
She was broken up for scrap.
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
- 39 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns (3×5 + 24x1)
- 4 × 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 8 × Type 93 torpedoes
- 54 × Type 95 depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Harutsuki on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Arkhiv fotografiy korabley russkogo i sovetskogo VMF. (Архив фотографий кораблей русского и советского ВМФ.) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons