Japanese destroyer Suzutsuki (1942)
Akizuki-class destroyer
Service
- as Suzutsuki29 December 1942 — 20 November 1945979 days of the war
- Name
- Suzutsuki
- Pennant / hull number
- 1942
- Namesake
- Clear moon (in autumn)
- Builder
- Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard
- Laid down
- 15 March 1941
- Launched
- 4 March 1942
- Commissioned
- 29 December 1942
- Struck
- 20 November 1945
- Fate
- Used as breakwater in 1948 (1948)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 2,700 long tons (2,743 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 3,700 long tons (3,759 t)
- Length
- 134.2 m (440.3 ft)
- Beam
- 11.6 m (38.1 ft)
- Draught
- 4.15 m (13.6 ft)
- Speed
- 33 knots (61.1 km/h, 38 mph)
- Range
- 8,300 nmi (15,372 km)
- Complement
- 263
- Main gun
- 100 mm (3.9 in)
Suzutsuki was a Akizuki-class destroyer, operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1942. She was named for Clear moon. Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard laid her keel on 15 March 1941. She entered service on 29 December 1942, having been launched on 4 March 1942.
Displacement was 2,700 long tons standard and 3,700 long tons at full load. She measured 134.2 m (440 ft) long with a beam of 11.6 m (38 ft). Her designed speed was 33 knots, and she carried a complement of 263.
Her main battery was eight 100 mm (3.9 in) guns.
She was in commission for 979 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 20 November 1945.
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 × Ro-Gō Kampon water tube boilers
- 2 × Kampon impulse geared turbines
- 2 shafts, 52000 shp
- Armament
- 15 January 1943 :
- 8 × 100 mm/65 cal Type 98 DP guns
- 12 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns (4×3)
- 4 × 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 8 × Type 93 torpedoes
- 56 × Type 95 depth charges
- October 1944 :
- 8 × 100 mm/65 cal DP guns
- 41 × 25 mm AA guns (7×3 + 20×1)
- 4 × 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 8 × Type 93 torpedoes
- 56 × Type 2 depth charges
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Suzutsuki (1942) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: United States Army Air Forces — Gakken Rekishi Gunzo Vol.23 "Akizuki class destroyers" — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons