Japanese destroyer Hatsukaze
Service
- as Hatsukaze? — 2 November 19431,523 days of the war
- Name
- Hatsukaze
- Builder
- Kawasaki Shipyards
- Laid down
- 3 December 1937
- Launched
- 24 January 1939
- Struck
- 2 November 1943
- Fate
- Sunk in action, 2 November 1943 (1943)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 2,033 long tons (2,066 t)
- Length
- 118.5 m (388.8 ft)
- Beam
- 10.8 m (35.4 ft)
- Draught
- 3.8 m (12.5 ft)
- Speed
- 35.5 knots (65.7 km/h, 40.9 mph)
- Complement
- 239
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Hatsukaze was a Kagerō-class destroyer built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her keel was laid at Kawasaki Shipyards on 3 December 1937. She was launched on 24 January 1939.
19 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Asashio-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Yūgumo-class destroyer.
Displacement was 2,033 long tons. She measured 118.5 m (389 ft) long with a beam of 10.8 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 35.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 239.
Her main battery was six 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,523 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 2 November 1943.
She was sunk on 2 November 1943. 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
- 3 × Kampon water tube boilers
- 2 × Kanpon impulse turbines
- 2 × shafts, 52000 shp
- Armament
- (1939)
- 6 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 DP guns
- 2 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns
- 8 × 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 16 depth charges
- 2 × paravanes
- (1943)
- 8 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns
- 36 depth charges
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Akigumo (1941)
- Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze (1939)
- Japanese destroyer Arashi
- Japanese destroyer Hagikaze
- Japanese destroyer Hamakaze (1940)
- Japanese destroyer Hayashio
- Japanese destroyer Isokaze (1939)
- Japanese destroyer Kagerō (1938)
- Japanese destroyer Kuroshio
- Japanese destroyer Maikaze
- Japanese destroyer Natsushio
- Japanese destroyer Nowaki (1940)
- Japanese destroyer Oyashio
- Japanese destroyer Shiranui (1938)
- Japanese destroyer Tanikaze (1940)
- Japanese destroyer Tokitsukaze (1939)
- Japanese destroyer Urakaze (1940)
- Japanese destroyer Yukikaze (1939)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Hatsukaze on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Yamato Museum — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons