Japanese destroyer Asagiri

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Career
Asagiri
Laid down:	December 12, 1928
Launched:	November 18, 1929
Commissioned:	June 30, 1930
Status:	Sunk at Guadalcanal on August 28, 1942
General Characteristics
Displacement:	2,050 tons
Length:	378 ft 3 in (115.3 m)
Beam:	34 ft (10.4 m)
Draft:	10 ft 6 in (3.2 m)
Propulsion:	4 × Kampon type boilers, 2 × Parsons geared turbines, 2 × shafts at 50,000 shp (37 MW)
Speed:	38 knots (70 km/h)
Range:	5,000 nm at 14 knots (9,200 km at 26 km/h)
Complement:	197
Armament:	6 × 5 inch (127 mm) / 50 caliber guns (3 × 2-gun turrets), up to 22 × 25 mm AA guns, up to 10 × 13 mm AA guns, 9 × 610 mm torpedo tubes, 36 × depth charges

Asagiri (Japanese 朝霧, Morning Mist) is the name of two destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and of one of the Japanese Marine Self-Defense Force.

The first Asagiri was a Harusame class destroyer commissioned in 1903. During the Russo-Japanese War, it took part in the Battle of the Yellow Sea in 1904. It was the flagship of Commander Suzuki's 4th Destroyer Division at the Battle of Tsushima in 1905 where it took part in the sinking of the Russian battleship Dmitri Donskoi. The ship served throughout World War I.

The second Asagiri was laid down at the Sasebo dockyard on 12 December 1928, launched on 18 November 1929, and commissioned on 30 June 1930. It was the third of the intermediate group of Fubuki class destroyers. The ship was assigned to the 20th Destroyer Division along with its sister ships Amagiri, Yugiri, and Sagiri.

These ships participated in Imperial Japanese Navy combat maneuvers and took part in the Second Sino-Japanese War during the 1930's. On 8 December 1941, the Asagiri and her sister ships of Destroyer Division 20 provided covering fire for the landings at Singora, Thailand. In the spring of 1942, the Asagiri was assigned as part of the destroyer screen for Admiral Yamamoto's main body at the Battle of Midway. The Destroyer Division was transferred to the Solomon Islands area in August of 1942 to oppose the American landings on Guadalcanal. On 28 August 1942, the division now composed of the Asagiri, Amagiri, Yugiri, and Shirakumo, left the Shortland Islands with the intention of landing reinforcements on Guadalcanal. Because of a hasty departure, they arrived in the Guadalcanal area during daylight hours and were attacked by United States Marine Corps SBD Dauntless dive bombers from Henderson Field. The Asagiri was sunk and the Yugiri was damaged. The surviving destroyers returned to base without landing the reinforcements.

In 1981 the name was again resurrected by the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force as the lead ship of the Asagiri class destroyers. Asagiri DD-151 was laid down at the Ishihari Tokyo shipyard on 13 February 1985, launched 19 September 1986, and commissioned on 17 March 1988. It was assigned to the 6th Escort Flotilla at Sasebo and is currently in service (2005).