Japanese destroyer Kisaragi (1925)
Service
- as Kisaragi? — 15 January 1942867 days of the war
- Name
- Kisaragi
- Pennant / hull number
- 1925
- Namesake
- February
- Builder
- Maizuru Naval Arsenal
- Laid down
- 3 June 1924
- Launched
- 5 June 1925
- Struck
- 15 January 1942
- Fate
- Sunk, 11 December 1941 (1941)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,315 long tons (1,336 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,772 long tons (1,800 t)
- Length
- 102.4 m (336 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.16 m (30.1 ft)
- Draught
- 2.96 m (9.7 ft)
- Speed
- 37.3 knots (69 km/h, 42.9 mph)
- Range
- 4,000 nmi (7,408 km)
- Complement
- 150
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
Kisaragi was a Mutsuki-class destroyer in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1925. She was named for February. Maizuru Naval Arsenal laid her keel on 3 June 1924. She was launched on 5 June 1925.
Twelve ships of the class were built. The class followed the Kamikaze-class destroyer (1922) and was succeeded by the Fubuki-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,315 long tons standard and 1,772 long tons at full load. She measured 102.4 m (336 ft) long with a beam of 9.2 m (30 ft). Her designed speed was 37.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 150.
Her main battery was four 120 mm (4.7 in) guns. 38,500 shp drove two shafts.
She was in commission for 867 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 15 January 1942.
She was sunk on 11 December 1941, at 18°55′N 166°17′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
- 2 shafts; 2 × Kampon geared steam turbines
- Power
- 38500 shp
- 4 × Kampon water-tube boilers
- Armament
- 4 × 12 cm Type 3 guns
- 2 × triple 61 cm torpedo tubes
- 18 × depth charges
- 16 × mines
Sister ships
- Japanese destroyer Fumizuki (1926)
- Japanese destroyer Kikuzuki (1926)
- Japanese destroyer Mikazuki (1926)
- Japanese destroyer Minazuki (1926)
- Japanese destroyer Mochizuki (1927)
- Japanese destroyer Mutsuki
- Japanese destroyer Nagatsuki (1926)
- Japanese destroyer Satsuki (1925)
- Japanese destroyer Uzuki (1925)
- Japanese destroyer Yayoi (1925)
- Japanese destroyer Yūzuki
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Kisaragi (1925) 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. 31 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons