Japanese destroyer Ayanami (1909)
For other ships with the same name, see Ayanami.
A classmate of the Kamikaze class, Ayanami | |
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Empire of Japan | |
Name: | Ayanami |
Builder: | Maizuru Naval Arsenal |
Laid down: | 15 May 1908 |
Launched: | 20 March 1909 |
Completed: | 6 June 1909 |
Renamed: | W-9 on 1 August 1928 |
Reclassified: | minesweeper on 1 December 1924 |
Reclassified: | tugboat on 1 June 1930 |
Fate: | scrapped 19 April 1933 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Kamikaze-class destroyer |
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Beam: | 6.57 m (21.6 ft) |
Draught: | 1.8 m (5.9 ft) |
Propulsion: | 2-shaft reciprocating, 4 coal-fired boilers, 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW) |
Speed: | 29 knots (54 km/h) |
Range: | 850 nmi (1,570 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h) |
Complement: | 70 |
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Ayanami (綾波) ("cross wave") was a Kamikaze-class destroyer in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The last of the Kamikaze-class vessels to be built, she was laid down at Maizuru Naval Arsenal on 15 May 1908, and launched 20 March the next year. Ayanami was nearly obsolete as soon as she was commissioned. On 1 December 1924 she was converted into a minesweeper. She was renamed W-9 on 1 August 1928 to free her name for her World War II counterpart, the Fubuki-class Ayanami. On 1 June 1930 she was converted again, this time to a tugboat, and was finally scrapped on 19 April 1933.
References
Books
- Evans, David (1979). Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887–1941. US Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-192-7.
- Howarth, Stephen (1983). The Fighting Ships of the Rising Sun: The Drama of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1895–1945. Atheneum. ISBN 0-689-11402-8.
- Lyon, David (2006). The First Destroyers. Mercury Books. ISBN 1-84560-010-X.
- Jentsura, Hansgeorg (1976). Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945. US Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-893-X.
External links
- Nishida, Hiroshi. "Materials of IJN: Asakaze class destroyer". Imperial Japanese Navy.
- Smith, Gordon. "Imperial Japanese Navy". World War I at Sea.
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