Japanese destroyer Wakaba (1934)
Service
- as Wakaba31 October 1934 — 10 December 19441,927 days of the war
- Name
- Wakaba
- Pennant / hull number
- 1934
- Builder
- Sasebo Naval Arsenal
- Ordered
- 1931
- Laid down
- 12 December 1931
- Launched
- 18 March 1934
- Commissioned
- 31 October 1934
- Struck
- 10 December 1944
- Fate
- Sunk in action, 24 October 1944 (1944)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,802 long tons (1,831 t)
- Length
- 109.5 m (359.3 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10 m (32.8 ft)
- Draught
- 3 m (9.8 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 4,000 nmi (7,408 km)
- Complement
- 200
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Wakaba was a Hatsuharu-class destroyer in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1934. Sasebo Naval Arsenal laid her keel on 12 December 1931. Launched on 18 March 1934, she entered service on 31 October 1934.
Six ships of the class were built. The class followed the Akatsuki-class destroyer (1931) and was succeeded by the Shiratsuyu-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,802 long tons. She measured 109.5 m (359 ft) long with a beam of 10 m (33 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 200. Her main battery was of 127 mm (5 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 1,927 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 December 1944.
She was sunk on 24 October 1944, at 11°50′N 121°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 shaft Kampon geared turbines
- 3 boilers, 42000 hp
- Armament
- (as built) 2 × 2, 1 × 1 - 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 naval gun
- 2 × 1 - 40 mm AA guns
- 3 × 3 - 61 cm torpedo tubes
- 18 × depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Wakaba (1934) 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. 77 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons