Japanese destroyer Wakatsuki
Akizuki-class destroyer (1942) destroyer
Service
- as Wakatsuki31 May 1943 — 10 January 1945593 days of the war
- Name
- Wakatsuki
- Builder
- Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard
- Laid down
- 9 March 1942
- Launched
- 24 November 1942
- Commissioned
- 31 May 1943
- Struck
- 10 January 1945
- Fate
- Sunk in action, 11 November 1944 (1944)
- Status
- Wreck
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)
Wakatsuki was a Akizuki-class destroyer (1942) destroyer in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy. Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard laid her keel on 9 March 1942. She entered service on 31 May 1943, having been launched on 24 November 1942.
She displaced 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 593 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 10 January 1945.
She was sunk on 11 November 1944. 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
- 4 × Kampon type boilers
- 2 × Parsons geared turbines
- 2 × shafts, 50000 shp
- Armament
- May 1943 :
- 8 × 100 mm/65 cal Type 98 DP guns
- 12 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns (3×4)
- 4 × 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 8 × Type 93 torpedoes
- 56 × Type 95 depth charges
- November 1944 :
- 8 × 100 mm/65 cal DP guns
- 35 × 25 mm AA guns (3×7 + 1×14)
- 4 × 610 mm torpedo tubes
- 8 × Type 93 torpedoes
- 56 × Type 95 depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Wakatsuki on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — San Francisco Marine National Park Association — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons