Japanese destroyer Hatsuzuki

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Career Japanese Navy Ensign
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:
Completed: 29 December 1942
Commissioned:
Fate: Sunk
Struck: 10 December 1944
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

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

In October 1944 Hatsuzuki was part of the Northern Force commanded by Admiral Ozawa Jisaburo, in the Japanese attack on the Allied forces supporting the invasion of Leyte. On 25 October, in the Battle off Cape Engaño, she was sunk ENE of Cape Engaño (20°24′N 126°20′E), while covering the rescue of survivors of the aircraft carriers Zuikaku and Zuihō by Wakatsuki and Kuwa.


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Akizuki-class destroyer

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