Japanese destroyer Hayashio
- Displacement
- 2,033 long tons (2,066 t)
- Length
- 118.5 m (388.8 ft)
- Beam
- 10.8 m (35.4 ft)
- Speed
- 35.5 knots (65.7 km/h, 40.9 mph)
- Complement
- 239
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Service
- as Hayashio? — 24 December 19421,210 days of the war
- Name
- Hayashio
- Builder
- Uraga Dock Company
- Laid down
- 30 June 1938
- Launched
- 19 April 1939
- Struck
- 24 December 1942
- Fate
- Sunk in action, 24 November 1942 (1942)
- 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)
Hayashio was a Kagerō-class destroyer built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Uraga Dock Company laid her keel on 30 June 1938. She was launched on 19 April 1939.
She was one of 19 ships of her class. 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 1,210 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 24 December 1942.
She was sunk on 24 November 1942, at 7°00′S 147°30′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
- 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
- 18 depth charges
- 2 × paravanes
- (1943)
- 6 × 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 DP guns
- 8 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns
- 8 × 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 18 depth charges
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Akigumo (1941)
- Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze (1939)
- Japanese destroyer Arashi
- Japanese destroyer Hagikaze
- Japanese destroyer Hamakaze (1940)
- Japanese destroyer Hatsukaze
- 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 Hayashio on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.