Japanese destroyer Inazuma (1932)
Service
- as Inazuma15 November 1932 — 10 June 19441,744 days of the war
- Name
- Inazuma
- Pennant / hull number
- 1932
- Namesake
- "Lightning"
- Builder
- Fujinagata Shipyards
- Ordered
- 1923
- Laid down
- 7 March 1930
- Launched
- 25 February 1932
- Commissioned
- 15 November 1932
- Struck
- 10 June 1944
- Fate
- Torpedoed and sunk on 14 May 1944
By torpedo (1944) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,750 long tons (1,778 t)
- Length
- 118.41 m (388.5 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.4 m (34.1 ft)
- Draught
- 3.2 m (10.5 ft)
- Speed
- 38 knots (70.4 km/h, 43.7 mph)
- Range
- 5,000 nmi (9,260 km)
- Complement
- 219
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Inazuma was a Fubuki-class destroyer built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1932. She was named for "Lightning". Her keel was laid at Fujinagata Shipyards on 7 March 1930. She entered service on 15 November 1932, having been launched on 25 February 1932.
Her class ran to 21 ships. The class followed the Mutsuki-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Hatsuharu-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,750 long tons. She measured 118.4 m (388 ft) long with a beam of 10.4 m (34 ft). Her designed speed was 38 knots, and she carried a complement of 219. Her main battery was of 127 mm (5 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 1,744 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 June 1944.
She was sunk on 14 May 1944 by torpedo, at 5°08′N 119°38′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
- 4 × Kampon type boilers
- 2 × Kampon Type Ro geared turbines
- 2 × shafts at 50000 ihp
- Armament
- 6 × Type 3 127 mm 50 caliber naval guns (3×2)
- up to 22 × Type 96 25 mm AT/AA Guns
- up to 10 × 13 mm AA guns
- 9 × 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes
- 36 × depth charges
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Akebono (1930)
- Japanese destroyer Amagiri (1930)
- Japanese destroyer Asagiri (1929)
- Japanese destroyer Ayanami (1929)
- Japanese destroyer Fubuki (1927)
- Japanese destroyer Hatsuyuki (1928)
- Japanese destroyer Ikazuchi (1931)
- Japanese destroyer Isonami (1927)
- Japanese destroyer Murakumo (1928)
- Japanese destroyer Oboro (1930)
- Japanese destroyer Sagiri
- Japanese destroyer Sazanami (1931)
- Japanese destroyer Shikinami (1929)
- Japanese destroyer Shinonome (1927)
- Japanese destroyer Shirakumo (1927)
- Japanese destroyer Shirayuki (1928)
- Japanese destroyer Uranami (1928)
- Japanese destroyer Ushio (1930)
- Japanese destroyer Usugumo (1927)
- Japanese destroyer Yūgiri (1930)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Inazuma (1932) 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. 73; also published in Shizuo Fukui, Nihon No Gunkan: Shashinshu , published 1970 , p.191 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons