Japanese destroyer Yūzuki
Service
- as Yūzuki? — 20 January 19451,968 days of the war
- Name
- Yūzuki
- Builder
- Fujinagata Shipyards, Osaka
- Laid down
- 27 November 1926
- Launched
- 4 March 1927
- Struck
- 20 January 1945
- Fate
- Sunk by American aircraft, 12 December 1944
By aircraft (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)
Yūzuki was a Mutsuki-class destroyer built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Fujinagata Shipyards, Osaka laid her keel on 27 November 1926. She was launched on 4 March 1927.
Twelve ships of the class were built. 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 1,968 days of the Second World War. She was struck from the register on 20 January 1945.
She was sunk on 12 December 1944 by aircraft, at 11°20′N 124°10′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 Uzuki (1925)
- Japanese destroyer Yayoi (1925)
Sources
- Facts harvested from Japanese destroyer Yūzuki 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. 41 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons