Japanese destroyer Mikazuki (1926)
Service
- as Mikazuki? — 15 October 19431,505 days of the war
- Name
- Mikazuki
- Pennant / hull number
- 1926
- Namesake
- Crescent moon
- Builder
- Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Sasebo
- Laid down
- 21 August 1925
- Launched
- 12 July 1926
- Struck
- 15 October 1943
- Fate
- Sunk by American aircraft, 28 July 1943
By aircraft (1943) - 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)
Mikazuki was a Mutsuki-class destroyer, operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1926. The ship was named after Crescent moon. Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Sasebo laid her keel on 21 August 1925. She was launched on 12 July 1926.
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 1,505 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 15 October 1943.
She was sunk on 28 July 1943 by aircraft, at 5°27′S 148°25′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 Kisaragi (1925)
- 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 Mikazuki (1926) 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. 39 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons