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Japanese destroyer Akatsuki
List of ships with the same or similar names From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Three destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy have been named Akatsuki (暁; ”dawn” or "daybreak"):
- Japanese destroyer Akatsuki (1901), lead ship of the Akatsuki-class destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy commissioned in 1903 and sunk in May 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War
- Russian destroyer Reshitel‘nyi, an Imperial Russian Navy Sokol-class destroyer captured by the Japanese in August 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War which subsequently served in the Imperial Japanese Navy as Akatsuki from 1904 to 1905 and as Yamabiko (also transliterated as Yamahiko) from 1905 to 1917
- Japanese destroyer Akatsuki (1932), a Fubuki-class destroyer or lead ship of the Akatsuki-class destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II
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See also
- Akatsuki (disambiguation)
- Akatsuki-class destroyer
- Japanese patrol vessel Akatsuki, a Reimei-class patrol vessel launched in 2020 for the Japan Coast Guard
This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.
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