Japanese destroyer Hatsuume
Tachibana sub-class of the Matsu-class destroyer escort destroyer
Service
- as Hatsuume? — 5 October 19452,193 days of the war
- as ROCS Xin Yang6 July 1947 — December 1961
- Name
- Hatsuume
- Namesake
- early-blooming plum
- Builder
- Maizuru Naval Arsenal
- Ordered
- 1944
- Laid down
- 8 December 1944
- Launched
- 25 April 1945
- Struck
- 5 October 1945
- Fate
- Scrapped, 1960s
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,288 long tons (1,309 t)
- Length
- 100 m (328.1 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.35 m (30.7 ft)
- Draught
- 3.37 m (11.1 ft)
- Speed
- 27.8 knots (51.5 km/h, 32 mph)
- Range
- 4,680 nmi (8,667 km)
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Hatsuume was a Tachibana sub-class of the Matsu-class destroyer escort destroyer in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was named for early-blooming plum. Her keel was laid at Maizuru Naval Arsenal on 8 December 1944. She was launched on 25 April 1945.
She displaced 1,288 long tons. She measured 100 m (328 ft) long with a beam of 9.3 m (31 ft). Her designed speed was 27.8 knots.
Her main battery was one 127 mm (5 in) guns. 19,000 shp drove two shafts.
She served with the Imperial Japanese Navy as Hatsuume until 5 October 1945. She then passed to the Chinese Navy, serving as ROCS Xin Yang from 6 July 1947. She was in commission for 2,193 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
- 2 shafts, 2 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 2 × water-tube boilers; 19000 shp
- Armament
- 1 × twin, 1 × single 127 mm DP guns
- 4 × triple, 13 × single 25 mm AA guns
- 1 × quadruple 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 2 × rails, 2 × throwers for 60 depth charges
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Enoki (1945)
- Japanese destroyer Hagi (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Hatsuzakura
- Japanese destroyer Kaba (1945)
- Japanese destroyer Kaki (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Kusunoki (1945)
- Japanese destroyer Nire (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Odake
- Japanese destroyer Shii
- Japanese destroyer Sumire (1944)
- Japanese destroyer Tsuta (1944)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Hatsuume on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: maybe Maizuru Naval Arsenal. — Fukui Shizuo "Fukui Shizuo collection, Japanese Naval Vessels 1869-1945", Bestsellers(Japan),1994 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons