Japanese destroyer Hatsukaze
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Hatsukaze (初風, lit. “First Wind”) [1] was the seventh vessel to be commissioned in the 19-vessel Kagerō-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late-1930s under the Circle Three Supplementary Naval Expansion Program (Maru San Keikaku). She survived four major fleet actions against the Allies, but was finally sunk in November 1943 after being damaged through collision with Japanese cruiser Myōkō.
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Name | Hatsukaze |
Builder | Kawasaki Shipyards |
Laid down | 3 December 1937 |
Launched | 24 January 1939 |
Completed | 15 February 1940 |
Stricken | 2 November 1943 |
Fate | Sunk in action, 2 November 1943 |
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Class and type | Kagerō-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2,033 long tons (2,066 t) standard |
Length | 118.5 m (388 ft 9 in) |
Beam | 10.8 m (35 ft 5 in) |
Draft | 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in) |
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Speed | 35.5 knots (40.9 mph; 65.7 km/h) |
Range | 5,000 NM at 18 knots (21 mph; 33 km/h) |
Complement | 239 |
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Victories: | PT-43 & PT-112 (1943) |
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