Japanese destroyer Hanazuki

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Career Japanese Navy Ensign
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:
Completed: 26 December 1944
Commissioned:
Decommissioned:
Fate: Scrapped
Struck: 5 October 1945
General Characteristics
Displacement: 2,700 tons standard;
3,700 tons full load
Length: 440 ft 3 in (134.2 meters
Beam: 38 ft 1 in (11.6 m)
Draft: 13 ft 7 in (4.5 m)
Speed: 33 knots (61 km/h)
Complement: 300
Armament: 8 × 100 mm / 65 cal DP guns,
up to 51 × 25 mm AA guns,
4 × 610 mm Type 93 torpedo tubes,
72 depth charges

Hanazuki was a Akizuki-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name means "Blooming Moon".

In June 1947, Hanazuki was turned over to U.S. as DD-934; later scrapped.


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Akizuki-class destroyer

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List of ships of the Japanese Navy