Asakaze Class Destroyers Class Overview

Dimensions, machinery and performance

Length:
236' 2"
Engines:
2 reciprocating
Beam:
21' 7"
Boilers:
4
Draft:
5' 9"
Shafts:
2
Displacement:
381 std / 450 full
HP:
6,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
61
Range:
1,200 NM @ 15 knots


Armament as built
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
6
3"/40 (76mm)

Single mounts
11,750 yards @ 40° (6.6 miles)
AA ceiling 19,000' @ 70°
12.5 lb. HE shell

2
18" (450mm)
torpedo tubes
Single launchers
1,100 yards @ 27 knots (.6 miles)
220 lb. Picric Acid or Shimose warhead


Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Hatsushimo
Yokosuka Navy Yard
Yokosuka, Japan

May 13, 1905
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1928.

*Converted into a minesweeper in 1923.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Kamikaze
Yokosuka Navy Yard
Yokosuka, Japan

July 15, 1905
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1928.

*Converted into a minesweeper in 1923.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Yayoi
Yokosuka Navy Yard
Yokosuka, Japan

Aug. 7, 1905
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1926.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Nenohi
Kure Navy Yard
Kure, Japan

Aug. 30, 1905
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1928.

*Converted into a minesweeper in 1923.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Ushio
Kure Navy Yard
Kure, Japan

Aug. 30, 1905
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1928.

*Converted into a minesweeper in 1923.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Kisaragi
Yokosuka Navy Yard
Yokosuka, Japan

Sept. 6, 1905
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1928.

*Converted into a minesweeper in 1923.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Asakaze
Kawasaki Jyuko Co.
Kobe, Japan


Oct. 28, 1905
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1928.

*Converted into a minesweeper in 1923.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Yugure
Sasebo Navy Yard
Sasebo, Japan

Nov. 17, 1905
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1928.

*Converted into a minesweeper in 1923.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Wakaba
Yokosuka Navy Yard
Yokosuka, Japan

Nov. 25, 1905
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1928.

*Converted into a minesweeper in 1923.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Harukaze
Kawasaki Jyuko Co.
Kobe, Japan


Dec. 25, 1905
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1928.

*Converted into a minesweeper in 1923.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Oite
Maizuru Navy Yard
Maizuru, Japan

Jan. 10, 1906
N/A
Fate
Hulked in 1926.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Shiratsuyu
Mitsubishi Zosensho
Nagasaki, Japan

Feb. 12, 1906
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1928.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Hatsuyuki
Yokosuka Navy Yard
Yokosuka, Japan


Mar. 8, 1906
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1928.

*Converted into a minesweeper in 1923.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Shigure
Kawasaki Jyuko Co.
Kobe, Japan


Mar. 12, 1906
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1925.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Yudachi
Sasebo Navy Yard
Sasebo, Japan

Mar. 26, 1906
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1928.

*Converted into a minesweeper in 1923.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Hibiki
Yokosuka Navy Yard
Yokosuka, Japan


Mar. 31, 1906
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1928.

*Converted into a minesweeper in 1923.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Asatsuyu
Osaka Iron Works
Osaka, Japan

Apr. 2, 1906
N/A
Fate
Wrecked Nov. 30, 1913

Location: Nanao Bay, Honshu, Japan.
(37.05N - 136.58E) *aprox. position.

Details unknown.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Shirayuki
Mitsubishi Zosensho
Nagasaki, Japan


May 19, 1906
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1928.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Hatsuharu
Kawasaki Jyuko Co.
Kobe, Japan


May 21, 1906
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1925.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Hayate
Osaka Iron Works
Osaka, Japan

May 22, 1906
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1925.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Mikazuki
Sasebo Navy Yard
Sasebo, Japan

May 26, 1906
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1928.
Name

Builder

Launched
Commissioned
Nowaki
Sasebo Navy Yard
Sasebo, Japan

July 25, 1906
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1924.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Shirotae
Mitsubishi Zosensho
Nagasaki, Japan


July 30, 1906
N/A
Fate
Wrecked Sept. 3, 1914 during a gun battle with the German gunboat Jaguar.

Location: Yellow Sea, at Kiautschou (Jiaozhou) Bay, Shandong Provence, China.
(36.05N - 120.15E) *aprox. position.

Destroyed by German shore guns and scrapped in 1915.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Yunagi
Maizuru Navy Yard
Maizuru, Japan

Aug. 22, 1906
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1925.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Uzuki
Kawasaki Jyuko Co.
Kobe, Japan


Sept. 20, 1906
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1925.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Minazuki
(Later
Minesweeper # 10)
Mitsubishi Zosensho
Nagasaki, Japan


Nov. 5, 1906
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1930.

*Converted into a minesweeper in 1926.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Nagatsuki
(Later
Minesweeper # 11)
Uraga Dock Co.
Tokyo, Japan

Dec. 15, 1906
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1930.

*Converted into a minesweeper in 1926.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Matsukaze
Mitsubishi Zosensho
Nagasaki, Japan


Dec. 23, 1906
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1926.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Kikuzuki
(Later
Minesweeper #12)
Uraga Dock Co.
Tokyo, Japan

Apr. 10, 1907
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1930.

*Converted into a minesweeper in 1926.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Uranami
(Later
Minesweeper # 8)
Maizuru Navy Yard
Maizuru, Japan

Dec. 8, 1907
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1930.

*Converted into a minesweeper in 1926.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Isonami
(Later
Minesweeper # 7)
Maizuru Navy Yard
Maizuru, Japan

Nov. 21, 1908
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1930.

*Converted into a minesweeper in 1926.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Ayanami
(Later
Minesweeper # 9)
Maizuru Navy Yard
Maizuru, Japan

Mar. 20, 1909
N/A
Fate
Scrapped in 1930.

*Converted into a minesweeper in 1926.


Page revised May 1, 2007