Japanese destroyer Uzuki (1925)
Service
- as Uzuki? — 10 January 19451,958 days of the war
- Name
- Uzuki
- Pennant / hull number
- 1925
- Namesake
- April
- Builder
- Ishikawajima Shipyards
- Laid down
- 11 January 1924
- Launched
- 15 October 1925
- Struck
- 10 January 1945
- Fate
- Sunk by PT boats on 12 December 1944 (1944)
- 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)
Uzuki was a Mutsuki-class destroyer in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1925. She was named for April. Ishikawajima Shipyards laid her keel on 11 January 1924. She was launched on 15 October 1925.
She was one of twelve ships of her class. The class followed the Kamikaze-class destroyer (1922) and was succeeded by the Fubuki-class destroyer.
She displaced 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 1,958 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 January 1945.
She was sunk on 12 December 1944, at 11°03′N 124°23′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 Mikazuki (1926)
- Japanese destroyer Minazuki (1926)
- Japanese destroyer Mochizuki (1927)
- Japanese destroyer Mutsuki
- Japanese destroyer Nagatsuki (1926)
- Japanese destroyer Satsuki (1925)
- Japanese destroyer Yayoi (1925)
- Japanese destroyer Yūzuki
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Uzuki (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. 33 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons