Japanese destroyer Yūnagi (1924)
Service
- as Yūnagi? — 6 October 19441,862 days of the war
- Name
- Yūnagi
- Pennant / hull number
- 1924
- Builder
- Sasebo Naval Arsenal
- Laid down
- 17 September 1923
- Launched
- 23 April 1924
- Struck
- 6 October 1944
- Fate
- Sunk on 25 August 1944 (1944)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,400 long tons (1,422 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,719 long tons (1,747 t)
- Length
- 102.5 m (336.3 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.1 m (29.9 ft)
- Draught
- 2.9 m (9.5 ft)
- Speed
- 37.3 knots (69.1 km/h, 42.9 mph)
- Range
- 3,600 nmi (6,667 km)
- Complement
- 148
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
Yūnagi was a Kamikaze-class destroyer (1922) destroyer, operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. She carried the pennant number 1924. Her keel was laid at Sasebo Naval Arsenal on 17 September 1923. She was launched on 23 April 1924.
Nine ships of the class were built. The class followed the Wakatake-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Mutsuki-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,400 long tons standard and 1,719 long tons at full load. She measured 102.5 m (336 ft) long with a beam of 9.1 m (30 ft). Her designed speed was 37.3 knots, and she carried a complement of 148.
Her main battery was four 120 mm (4.7 in) guns. 38,500 shp drove two shafts.
She was in commission for 1,862 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 6 October 1944.
She was sunk on 25 August 1944, at 18°46′N 120°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 × Kampon geared steam turbines
- Power
- 38500 shp
- 4 × Kampon water-tube boilers
- Armament
- 4 × single 12 cm Type 3 guns
- 3 × twin 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Yūnagi (1924) 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. 29 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons