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Imperial Japanese Navy — Destroyer 1941

Japanese destroyer Teruzuki (1941)

Akizuki-class destroyer (1942) destroyer

Japanese destroyer Teruzuki (1941)
Shizuo Fukui — Kure Maritime Museum, Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album: Destroyers , edited by Kazushige Todaka, p. 118; also published in Shizuo Fukui, Nihon No Gunkan: Shashinshu , published 1970 , p.207 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — 1941 Imperial Japanese Navy Destroyer Akizuki (Akizuki-class) on trial run off Miyazu Bay.

Service

  1. Imperial Japanese Navy as Teruzuki? — 15 January 19431,232 days of the war
Akizuki-class destroyer (1942) destroyer Particulars
Name
Teruzuki
Pennant / hull number
1941
Builder
Mitsubishi, Nagasaki
Launched
21 November 1941
Struck
15 January 1943
Fate
Sunk in action, 12 December 1942 (1942)
Status
Wreck

Specifications

Displacement, standard
2,701 long tons (2,744 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
300
Main gun
100 mm (3.9 in)

Teruzuki was a Akizuki-class destroyer (1942) destroyer, operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1941. She was built by Mitsubishi, Nagasaki. She was launched on 21 November 1941.

She displaced 2,701 long tons. 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 300.

Her main battery was eight 100 mm (3.9 in) guns in four twin mountings. Her machinery developed 52,000 shp.

She was in commission for 1,232 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 15 January 1943.

She was sunk on 12 December 1942, at 9°13′S 159°46′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 × geared steam turbines
Power
  • 3 × water-tube boilers
  • 52000 shp
Armament
  • 4 × twin 100 mm DP guns
  • 2 × twin 25 mm AA guns
  • 1 × quadruple 610 mm torpedo tubes
  • 2 × depth charge throwers; 54 × depth charges

Sister ships

Sources

  • Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Teruzuki (1941) 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. 118; also published in Shizuo Fukui, Nihon No Gunkan: Shashinshu , published 1970 , p.207 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons